Manager Engineering

We are looking for someone who can:
? Inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering organization consisting of 3-8 team
members.
? Manage and drive procurement for third party products that your team depends on
? Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own team and cross teams
? Scope and own a problem space, articulate and develop fact based argumentation and present it
to senior management or CXOs, develop vision and mission statement
? Prioritise and optimise for highest speed in execution
? Take calculated risks, anchor with different stakeholders and articulate short and long term
consequences
? Continuously develop relationships between product, engineering and key stakeholders across all
domains.
? Influence and drive software design discussions.
? Translate business needs into capability build up and hiring plans in own team
? Play a key role in helping us continue attracting, developing and retaining great engineering
talent.
? Act swiftly to change of direction, re-evaluate priorities and steer the team accordingly
? Manage the budget for the team and dependencies

You’ll need to have;
? Experience leading cross functional software engineering teams in a fast paced, delivery focused
environment.
? Strong track record of delivery of influential software, preferably in complex business models and
high transaction environment.
? Being a Software Engineer yourself - you are still hands on enough to write code and contribute
to design discussions.
? Strong people management skills
? Strong collaboration and coordination skills.
? Self driven and curiosity in mindset
? Stakeholder management ability.
? Solid experience in acting independently coupled with strong collaboration and coordination skills

Who we are

Klarna is Europe's fastest growing and most exciting financial technologies (FinTech) company valued at over $2.5bn and we’re growing by 40% a year. Here at Klarna we are striving to become the world’s most favourite way to buy. It is a bold objective, but we are well on course to achieving it.

Klarna is already operating in 18 markets and we plan to keep expanding. We serve 60 million consumers, work with 70 000 merchants and process more than a million transactions a day. We have some pretty heavy-weight investors including Visa, Sequoia Capital, Permira and Anders Povlsen.

Unicorns are rare - and we are one of them! Unicorns are tech startups valued at over 1$Bn. Moreover, Klarna is listed 8th on CNBC most ‘disruptive companies in the world’ list for 2016, alongside Uber, AirBnB and coming above companies like Snapchat and Spotify - we are really starting to change the global world of payments.

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