Product Architect, Schibsted Account

Schibsted account is the largest identity provider in Scandinavia, providing over 15,5 million people with instant access to 60+ well-known digital brands - such as VG, Aftenposten, Finn, Blocket, Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet, and Omni.

Join us and you will be operating at the core of Schibsted’s digital business model to provide a mission-critical product that: powers enriched, personalized experiences; increases the security of our clients’ products; and puts end-users in control of their information.

Mission of the Reliability team

We believe that reliability is more than just strong design. We believe that reliability should be woven into our culture and the mindset of all our teams: having a reliable product strengthens trust in Schibsted and the quality of our products.

As part of the reliability team you will plan our reliability journey by determining what is appropriate for the business and our product. You will influence our architecture, our processes, our culture, and our mindsets. You will empower our developers to move faster whilst still improving our product reliability.

What you'll do

- Perform design, development and support of existing and new products
- Develop architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity, and scalability of product
- Work with domain, product management and product engineering teams in the solution engineering efforts
- Define product validation policies so as to deliver products that meet system and project expectations
- Assist product teams with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems knowledge
- Shape the Product Architect role and responsibilities, and choose the tools that help you best do the job

Some of the things you will work with

Schibsted Account is built on Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript, and has legacy services in PHP; with most new development being completed in Kotlin and JavaScript. We are in AWS and use Kubernetes for container orchestration, Terraform for our infrastructure as code, and utilise Schibsted’s centralised developer tooling.

Where you'll be

- Stockholm or Oslo
- Where are your colleagues based? Today we have team members based in Kraków, Stockholm, Oslo, Gdansk, and Kramfors

What we can offer you

- We are a distributed workforce which allows us to embrace all kinds of work modes: in office, from home, or a hybrid. For this particular role we believe that hybrid will work best, but we are open for discussion
- Autonomy to discover new ways forward, experiment, prioritise and own the journey of your team and Schibsted Account
- A learning and development focused environment with emphasis on knowledge sharing, demos, and training

If you are interested in learning more about Schibsted Account, listen to this podcast - https://spoti.fi/3BAYhqF by Ida Kristine Norddal; our Senior Product Manager.

Fluency in the English language, both written and spoken, is expected. For this reason, only applications in English will be considered.


Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a strong Nordic position, and more than 5,000 employees. Millions of people interact with our companies every day through our leading online marketplaces, world-class media houses. We also help new promising businesses grow. Our joint mission of empowering people in their daily lives is rooted in the values of our media heritage and a legacy of bold change. At our best, we are a fearless force for change in a society built on trust and transparency.

Data & Tech is a central product and tech unit that serves all of Schibsted. We are about 250+ people in Oslo, Stockholm and Krakow, and collaborate closely with other product and tech teams in all units in Schibsted. Areas of responsibilities include data & technology strategy, privacy/data trends/responsible data & machine learning, information security and internal IT.