Staff Embedded Engineer

Anyfin

WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO LEADS AND SETS TECHNICAL DIRECTION IN EQUAL MEASURE. SOMEONE WHO CAN MAKE HARD CALLS, NAVIGATE BUSINESS TRADE-OFFS, AND STILL WALK INTO A ROOM AND HAVE A GENUINELY USEFUL CONVERSATION ABOUT ARCHITECTURE, CREDIT DECISIONING, OR HOW AI IS CHANGING THE WAY GREAT ENGINEERING TEAMS WORK. THAT COMBINATION IS RARE. THAT'S WHY WE'RE WRITING THIS. FEW COMPANIES AT THIS STAGE HAVE THIS MUCH COOL STUFF AHEAD OF THEM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FOUNDATION IS BUILT. THE REAL EXPANSION STARTS NOW. We've already helped a lot of people in debt take back control of their finances. But we're moving to a much larger scale, extending the journey toward lasting financial stability and wellbeing for more people across Europe. We're profitable. We're regulated as a kreditmarknadsbolag, a licence that lets us operate across the entire EU. Germany is growing fast and Sweden and Finland is strong markets. Our 2030 ambition is to be a pan-European company. That future is genuinely exciting and not fully written yet. The team is small and intentionally so. We're not trying to build a massive organisation. We'd rather have fewer people who want to do the exceptional and sometimes the unthinkable. People who trust each other, move fast and care about doing things properly. That's the culture we've built and it's something we're protective of. AI is a big part of how we work. Not just as a strategy, but something that's lived and breathed across engineering, analytics, operations and product development. We're building internal tooling on frontier models and we believe the way strong product and engineering organisations operate is changing quickly. This role requires someone who genuinely believes that too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT THE ROLE ACTUALLY IS You'll own the full technology function. That means setting direction, building the team, making trade-offs between speed and quality, and being a real contributor in leadership discussions about the business, not just the technical ones. This role is inherently cross-functional. The CTO's scope isn't tech alone, it's how technology creates value across every part of the business. How engineering decisions shape customer behaviour and the product experience. How technical choices affect our ability to expand, comply, and compete. We don't really think of "the business" and "tech" as separate conversations. You'll be close to the work. Not because we expect you to write production code every day, but because we think good technical leadership requires genuine proximity. Something that's just lived and breathed, not performed. You must be the kind of person who finds that energising rather than beneath them. The problems ahead of us are not just engineering problems. They're business problems, AI problems, regulatory problems and organisational problems at the same time. Credit decisioning across markets. Payments infrastructure. Scaling internationally. Multilingual AI systems. Understanding how customers actually behave and interact with financial products. Building a team that stays strong as we grow. You'll need to hold all of that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT WE THINK MATTERS You've been here before. You've sat in a leadership team, made decisions that affected the whole business and have managed other leaders. You've scaled an organisation from scrappy to structured, without losing what made it good. If your experience is primarily hands-on engineering management, this probably isn't the right next step. You've scaled a modern B2C product company in fintech, lending, payments or another regulated financial environment where product, risk and engineering constantly influence each other. You understand the business well enough to have a real opinion in any room, not just the technical ones. You lead well. Not in a "strong leader" the LinkedIn way. People actually want to work for you and with you. You make decisions, give direction, and create clarity without creating politics. You understand systems, trade-offs and leverage. You're comfortable making difficult calls with incomplete information and you don't need the picture to be fully clear before you act. You care about impact. Not just shipping things but actually moving the needle for customers and the business. You know what good looks like and it bothers you when things aren't and you don't really know how to turn that off. That's just how you're wired. And you're genuinely excited by AI. Not just following the discourse, but actually building with it, thinking about it, and probably annoying people at dinner parties with it. You're the person who can't stop thinking about what it changes. For products, for engineering teams, for financial services, and probably for a lot of other things too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technically, we work with TypeScript, Python, Go, GraphQL, React Native, Kubernetes, BigQuery and GCP. The stack matters less than the judgment you bring to it. This role is based in Stockholm. We're at a stage where leadership needs to be embedded, close to the teams and part of how the culture develops. That's not negotiable, but we think if this role is right for you, it won't feel like a compromise. We offer a competitive salary and meaningful equity. This is real skin in the game, we're profitable and growing, and we want you to feel that. If this sounds like the kind of problem you want to work on, we'd like to hear from you.

Acast

About Acast Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen - across any podcast app or listening platform. About the role We are looking for an exceptional Managing Director to lead Acast's Nordic business across Sweden and Norway. This is a senior P&L leadership role with full responsibility for commercial performance, team leadership, strategic partnerships, and the long-term growth of Acast's position in the region. As MD Nordics, you will be the highest-ranking leader in the region and equal parts visionary, operator, and ambassador. You will own the business from revenue to EBITDA, lead a high-performing cross-functional team of around 38 people, and be the face of Acast to media agencies, creators, advertisers, and the press. The Nordic market is mature and market-leading in podcasting. Yet the opportunity to grow it further has never been greater: deepening commercial partnerships, diversifying revenue well beyond traditional ad inventory, and cementing Acast's position as a full-scale media and creative powerhouse. You will report directly to the Global CEO. What you'll do Commercial Leadership & P&L Ownership * Own full P&L responsibility for Sweden and Norway, delivering against market contribution and EBITDA targets * Drive consistent revenue growth across advertising, sponsorships, and emerging channels * Maintain and grow strategic trading relationships with media agencies * Lead the ambitious expansion into sponsorships, branded content, omni-channel, live events, merchandise, and video Strategy & Business Development * Define and execute the regional strategy in alignment with Acast's global direction * Identify and acquire exciting new podcasts and creator partnerships to strengthen the content portfolio * Oversee key strategic initiatives including exploring and developing market expansion in the region and maintaining and developing important partnerships * Develop and integrate new production capabilities through strategic growth opportunities * Structure and optimise the organisation in response to market demand to maximise the potential for new revenue streams, with a primary focus on the creative studio People & Team Leadership * Lead and develop a regional management team spanning Sales, Content, Creative, and PR & Marketing * Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture that attracts and retains top talent * Provide clear direction, coaching, and accountability across departments and geographies * Manage headcount planning, budgeting, and staff optimisation Stakeholder & External Relations * Serve as the primary external ambassador for Acast in the Nordics, with media agencies, brands, creators, and press * Oversee strategic PR and IR-related communications from the Stockholm headquarters * Build and maintain a broad, active network across the media and advertising ecosystem Operations * Provide executive oversight for regional facilities, including studio infrastructure and real estate asset optimization. * Ensure operational continuity through steady leadership Who you are Experience * Proven track record as a Country Manager, MD, or senior leader with full P&L ownership * Experience leading across multiple Nordic markets, with a genuine understanding of the commercial and cultural distinctions between them * Background in media, digital advertising, content, or the broader creator economy - industry experience strongly preferred * Demonstrated success driving business development, restructuring, or growth journeys * Experience in a global, publicly listed company and familiarity with corporate governance requirements Skills & Knowledge * Strong commercial acumen with the ability to analyse financial performance, forecast accurately, and make data-driven decisions * Deep understanding of the media landscape across digital, audio, video, social (TikTok, YouTube), and traditional platforms * Experience navigating and leading within complex matrix organisations * Broad network across media agencies and brand partners in the Nordics * Fluency in English; Swedish or Norwegian a strong advantage Leadership & Personal Qualities * A decisive, strategic thinker who can balance long-term vision with short-term execution * Entrepreneurial mindset with high energy, a bias for action, and genuine enthusiasm for the creator economy * A true people leader: kind but firm, transparent in communication, and skilled at developing talent and driving accountability * Culturally intelligent, able to build cohesion across teams and markets * Comfortable and confident as a high-visibility external spokesperson and thought leader Culture  Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different. Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.  We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture. We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies — from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups — use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM The Core Change Management group is responsible for the systems that let every Stripe engineer ship code, configuration, and infrastructure changes safely and at high velocity. You will be embedded primarily on the Service Deployments team — the owners of Stripe's end-to-end code deployment platform — with regular collaboration with the Resource Automation and Feature Deployments teams. Service Deployments owns the full lifecycle of software changes at Stripe. The team's mission is to let developers roll out code and configuration changes safely without sacrificing productivity, with a goal of meaningfully reducing change-related production incidents year over year. The team operates a meaningful on-call rotation and owns the systems that sit in the critical path of every engineer's daily workflow at Stripe. Resource Automation owns the safe-by-default infrastructure change layer: automated remote execution, incremental Infrastructure as Code tooling, cloud resource inventory, and cloud account governance and IAM role management. You will collaborate with this team on projects that span the boundary between deployment orchestration and cloud resource management. Feature Deployments owns Stripe's feature flag system, merchant entitlements, configuration management and distribution, and the audit log of change-correlated events. You will work with this team when deployment pipelines intersect with feature rollout and change safety tooling. WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE COMPELLING * You own the foundation of how Stripe ships software. The deployment platform sits in the critical path of every engineer's workflow at Stripe. The decisions you make affect thousands of deploys per day across hundreds of services, directly determining how fast and safely Stripe's product evolves. * Technically rich, architecturally active. The team is executing several concurrent platform transformations: containerizing host-based services at scale, adding intelligent multi-service deploy pipelines, extending real-time anomaly detection to earlier stages of traffic shifts, and rebuilding deployment event infrastructure on top of a durable message bus. This is not maintenance work — the architecture is in motion. * Broad surface area, real ownership. You will span the full stack from container scheduling and deployment orchestration business logic to the developer-facing internal platform UI. The problems are multi-layered: reliability, developer experience, performance, and safety all at once. * Your judgment prevents incidents. The team's explicit goal is to drive down change-related incidents across Stripe by building better detection, smarter pipelines, and safer defaults. Your technical decisions have a direct and measurable safety impact on Stripe's reliability. * Agency to shape technical strategy. As a Staff engineer on Service Deployments, you will set technical direction for the team's systems, author designs that span multiple teams, and be the person engineering managers and engineers turn to for the hardest deployment infrastructure questions. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own end-to-end technical delivery of large, ambiguous infrastructure projects — from initial design through production launch and long-term reliability. Author the design, sequence the work, unblock the team, and shepherd projects to landed impact. * Architect the next generation of Stripe's deployment platform. Lead technical design of the deployment orchestrator's evolution — including multi-service dependency-aware autodeploy pipelines, Kubernetes-native deployment primitives, and fleetwide container migration — defining the API contracts, rollout strategies, and operational model that hundreds of teams depend on. * Extend deploy anomaly detection. Evolve blue-green traffic analysis: extend coverage to earlier traffic-split stages, design API/method-based regression detection, and build a self-service onboarding system that makes anomaly detection the default for all supported service types. * Lead the host-to-container fleet migration. Drive sequencing, backward compatibility, and cross-team coordination for migrating Stripe's fleet of host-based services to containerized, fleetwide deployments — keeping the production deployment system operational while executing the transformation. * Own reliability and operational excellence for the deployment platform. Lead incident response; systematically reduce operational toil; and make reliability, security, and maintainability first-class properties of the systems you own. * Build deployment event infrastructure. Own the deployment notification and event-publishing architecture — designing the event schema, durability model, and integration contracts that downstream systems rely on for observability and automation. * Collaborate across Core Change Management. Partner with Resource Automation on projects that span deployment orchestration and cloud resource management (IAM, account provisioning, infrastructure automation), with Feature Deployments on change-safety tooling (feature flags, configuration management, change audit logs) that integrates with or depends on the deployment pipeline, and with the service mesh team on routing capabilities that enable advanced deployment patterns such as canary rollouts and merchant-priority traffic shaping. * Set the technical bar. Own critical design reviews, establish standards for deployment safety and developer experience, mentor senior engineers through high-stakes architectural decisions, and advocate for the right abstractions — code that consuming teams can adopt without becoming deployment infrastructure experts. * Decompose complexity for the team. Translate large, open-ended platform challenges into scoped, parallelizable work; help engineers grow by framing problems clearly and providing decisive technical guidance on the hardest questions. WHO YOU ARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of designing and shipping production infrastructure systems of significant scale and complexity. * Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects end-to-end — from technical design through delivery — including managing cross-team dependencies and coordinating migrations across many consuming teams. * Deep expertise in distributed systems and deployment orchestration: strong foundations in how services are built, scheduled, and operated at scale, including rollout strategies, staged delivery, and failure modes. * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments, including service lifecycle management, workload scheduling, and the operational challenges of migrating large fleets from VM-based to containerized infrastructure. * Strong background in service reliability and operational excellence: demonstrated ability to lead incident response, reduce toil, and build systems that are reliable, debuggable, and maintainable by a team. * Track record of broad technical impact across multiple large systems: fluency across a complex codebase, force-multiplier effect through code review and mentorship, and the ability to set technical direction for a team rather than just execute within it. PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS * Background in deployment safety systems: anomaly detection, automated rollback, progressive delivery, or similar mechanisms that reduce the blast radius of bad deployments. * Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent) applied to deployment lifecycle observability and notification. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code at scale — Terraform or equivalent — particularly in the context of cloud resource governance and IAM management in AWS or Azure. * Developer platform or internal tooling background: a strong developer experience sensibility and the ability to build abstractions that reduce toil for the engineering teams that depend on your platform. * Change management and feature rollout systems: experience with feature flags, configuration distribution, or audit-log infrastructure that provides safety guardrails around production changes. * Familiarity with service mesh concepts (canary deployments, weighted routing, traffic-splitting) sufficient to collaborate effectively with partner teams on routing capabilities that enable advanced deployment patterns. IN-OFFICE EXPECTATIONS Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.