Engineering Manager at Klart

Job Description

Lead people, delivery, and technical direction — with real impact
At Klart, we help over half a million people every day navigate life’s decisions with accurate and helpful weather information. We’re a small, agile team building one of Sweden’s most loved weather services – and we’re growing. Backed by Schibsted, we also collaborate with brands like Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet to reach millions of users across the Sweden.

We’re now looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our engineering team, support our people, and shape the future of our technology and products. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership, delivery ownership, and technical knowledge in a collaborative and fast-moving environment.

What you’ll be doing

As Engineering Manager, you’ll report to the CEO and be part of Klart’s management team. You will:

• Lead and coach a skilled distributed engineering team (Stockholm and Poland)
• Set the technical direction in alignment with business and product goals
• Own delivery, prioritisation and execution together with the Product Manager
• Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and trade-offs
• Participate in architectural discussions and align technical initiatives
• Collaborate closely with Product and UX to shape roadmaps and long-term vision
• Foster a culture of trust, learning, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Represent the tech team in company-wide decisions and execution
• Contribute hands-on to development when needed

About you

You are an experienced engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of people, technology, and product. You might have:

• Experience leading software teams as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead or similar
• A solid technical foundation in software or data engineering — you’re comfortable reading code and enjoy staying close to tech
• A strong sense of ownership, drive and curiosity — you enjoy challenging assumptions and improving how things are done
• An inclusive and participatory leadership style — you're a good communicator and a strong collaborator
• Humility, flexibility and a solution-oriented mindset
• Fluency in Swedish and English on professional working proficiency level

Bonus skills and experience
(Not required — but let us know if you have experience with any of these!)

• Working with app-based or user-facing products
• AI, machine learning or data science
• Python

🛠 Our Tech Stack

• Golang
• Node.js / React / Express.js
• Kotlin
• Swift
• AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB
• Docker
• GitHub Actions

You don’t need to know our full stack to apply — curiosity and willingness to learn matter more than ticking every box.

A glimpse of what we’ve done recently

• Migrated our website from old Nunjucks templates to modern React, significantly increasing page performance, code modularity and development speed.
• Replaced our analytics platform with one shared with the Schibsted family of brands.
• Rebuilt our place search using AI-assisted suggestions and auto-completion.
• Created a new and comprehensive user onboarding experience in our native apps to introduce our features and better capture user interest.

How do we work and why you’ll enjoy working at Klart

• Impact & autonomy: Small team, real ownership, influence across product, tech and company direction - directly affecting a product used by millions of people
• Work-life balance: Flexible hours, hybrid setup (2–3 days in Stockholm office), 30 days of paid leave
• Culture: Open, collaborative and curious environment

Diversity & Inclusion

At Klart and Schibsted, we believe diverse teams build better products. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences — even if you don’t meet every single requirement. Your skills, motivation and potential matter most.

Background check

Please note that final candidates for this position will be asked to complete a background check, in line with Schibsted’s policy for Sweden-based roles.

Interested?

We’re interviewing continuously, so don’t wait to apply. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to:

Malin Brinktell, CEO
📧 malin.brinktell@schibsted.com
📞 +46(0)701-448668