Company profile
Klarna provides buy-now-pay-later, checkout, shopping, and payments products for consumers and merchants. Engineering interviews are shaped by credit risk, merchant integrations, fraud controls, and a European fintech environment where product speed has to coexist with regulatory scrutiny.
Klarna operates in the fintech space with a headcount around 4K, which usually puts hiring in a middle zone: repeatable enough to have defined stages, small enough that the team you would join runs most of the loop. For backend engineer, database engineer, developer relations engineer candidates that generally means a recruiter conversation, skill rounds led by future teammates, and a closing conversation with a senior leader. The role pages below break down the questions for each function.
Klarna hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Database engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Engineering manager interview questions and process at Klarna.
Forward-deployed engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Founding engineer interview questions and process at Klarna.
Approximate senior median pay for Klarna's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modelled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Klarna offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Klarna holds a 3.7 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.7