Klarna
Stockholm · est. 2005 · website ↗
Registered as Klarna Bank AB
Buy-now-pay-later and consumer fintech; famously cut its interview loop 8→2 stages.
SurvivalStrong
CapitalPublic
SectorFintech
Age21 years est. 2005
FitStructure
BuildingData/ML
LanguageEnglish
Open roles right now (16)
Open when I last checked.
- Senior Engineerposted · via Arbetsformedlingen
- Credit Data Engineer · via their Deel careers site
- Engineer · via their Deel careers site
- Lead Data Engineer · via their Deel careers site
- Lead Engineer · via their Deel careers site
- Lead Engineer — Application Security · via their Deel careers site
- Mobile Application Senior Security Engineer · via their Deel careers site
- Principal Engineer-Client Platform · via their Deel careers site
- Senior Data Scientist - Fraud Model Validation · via their Deel careers site
- Senior Erlang Engineer - Dunning Banking Servicing · via their Deel careers site
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Credit modelling · via their Deel careers site
- Senior/Lead Data Scientist · via their Deel careers site
- Senior/Lead Data Scientist -Credit · via their Deel careers site
- Senior/Lead Data Scientist -Credit & Finance Model Validation · via their Deel careers site
- Senior/Lead Data Scientist- Open Banking · via their Deel careers site
- Senior/Lead Data Scientist-Fraud · via their Deel careers site
Other roles right now (16)
Titles that do not read as software.
- Senior Analystposted · via Arbetsformedlingen
- Ad Tech Specialist – Ad Tech & Measurement · via their Deel careers site
- Communications Manager · via their Deel careers site
- Customer Trust & Experience Consultant (Fully Remote – Sweden | German speaking) · via their Deel careers site
- Customer Trust and Experience Consultant (Fully Remote - Sweden) · via their Deel careers site
- Delivery Manager - Partner Integration & Implementation · via their Deel careers site
- Domain Security Lead · via their Deel careers site
- Financial Crime Compliance Specialist · via their Deel careers site
- Financial Crime Compliance Specialist - German Speaking · via their Deel careers site
- Financial Crime Investigator · via their Deel careers site
- Fixed Income Trader - Treasury · via their Deel careers site
- Operational Risk Manager - Analytics · via their Deel careers site
- Screening Adjudication Expert · via their Deel careers site
- Senior Financial Crime Investigator · via their Deel careers site
- Senior Risk Manager · via their Deel careers site
- Workforce Management Lead - Fincrime Operations · via their Deel careers site
Stack, from their job ads
From Klarna’s own job ads, so only the part it is hiring for.
Frontend
Backend
Data
What the open roles look like
From the open role titles. Not used in any ranking.
- 2 of 32ConsultancyRoles framed as consulting, where the work is billed to clients. A long-standing product-vs-consultancy split in the Swedish market, and a real preference axis for developers.
Group accounts (parent company)
Read from what they publishThe Swedish entity, Klarna Bank AB, is a bank. Bolagsverket's standard accounts API returned zero documents for it; banks report under Finansinspektionen's regime rather than filing there. These are Klarna Group plc, listed on the NYSE (KLAR)’s own published figures, not the Stockholm entity’s, and not used in the survival read.
- Total incomeUSD 3.5bn
Source: Klarna Group plc full year 2025 results. Hand-entered from the company’s own report, not parsed from a Swedish filing.
Registered business activity (SNI)
Filed with a public registryStandard industry classification codes as filed with Bolagsverket.
Annan monetär finansförmedlingAnnan kreditgivning
Open source activity
Read from what they publishFrom the company’s own linked GitHub organization, @klarna.
Public repos65
Stars2504
Last push
Everything I could know about Klarna
A blank is a gap in my coverage.
Company health
Filed with a public registry- SurvivalPublicNo recent digital filing to read, but survival here is a matter of public record: public ownership. A categorical read, not a filed number.
- Age21 years oldFounded 2005, 21 years ago.
- CapitalPublicHand-curated from public ownership records.
- Distress flagsNo data for this company yet
- GrowthNo data for this company yet
What you'd build and work with
Read from their job ads- Building (problem type)Data/MLData/ML (1): 1 posting classified from title/description keywords, not ML.
- StackPython14SQL9AWS8Java4JavaScript4AWS Lambda3Docker3scikit-learn3Spark3Airflow2Android2Databricks2Erlang2iOS2Jenkins2Redshift2Terraform2C#1Datadog1Elixir1Google Analytics1Kafka1Kubernetes1LLM1MATLAB1MLflow1Node.js1Pandas1PyTorch1React1React Native1Scala1TypeScript1Python (14), SQL (9), AWS (8), Java (4), JavaScript (4), AWS Lambda (3), Docker (3), scikit-learn (3), Spark (3), Airflow (2), Android (2), Databricks (2), Erlang (2), iOS (2), Jenkins (2), Redshift (2), Terraform (2), C# (1), Datadog (1), Elixir (1), Google Analytics (1), Kafka (1), Kubernetes (1), LLM (1), MATLAB (1), MLflow (1), Node.js (1), Pandas (1), PyTorch (1), React (1), React Native (1), Scala (1), TypeScript (1), counted over the postings whose text I hold.
- Role shape2 consultancyClassified from the titles of the 32 roles open when I last checked.
- SectorFintechMapped from the industry tags this company reported to the startup directory (fintech). Self-reported, so it is the company's own claim about its market.
- Engineering reputationRead from what they publishGitHub: klarna65 public repos, 2504 stars, last push 3 weeks ago.
Hiring practicalities
Read from their job ads- Open roles32 open32 roles, sourced from the company's own Deel board.
- Working languageEnglishRead from the words in this company's own live job ads, which is the company stating how it hires rather than me inferring it. Detected across this company's live postings.
Fit and mission
Worked out from facts I hold- Fit (chaos or structure)Structurefounded 2005 (21 years ago), ~2,831 employees, Public stage. Age, size and stage combine into the read.
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Worked out from facts I holdEach shows why. Not a recommendation.
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Work here?
2 developers have answered so far. Same questions for every company.
Read the answers, or add yoursOn the map
Sveavägen 46, 11134 STOCKHOLM
Address as filed with Bolagsverket.
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Wrong about Klarna?
The address, the headcount, the logo, a role that closed. Tell me which and I will fix it.