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Engineering Manager
Catawiki’s purpose is to enable people to discover and obtain special objects that help them fulfil their passions. In doing so, we add some color & make the world a more interesting place!
Our Engineering story
As the biggest online auction platform for special objects in Europe, Catawiki operates in a huge market which brings a lot of unique challenges and opportunities. Having more than 15 million monthly visitors, Catawiki’s Engineering team takes the stability and the scalability of our systems and applications seriously.
We strive to build scalable systems that will perform well under load, by deciding what algorithms and data structures our programs use, by always estimating and benchmarking our system’s performance, and by choosing the right technologies. Our Engineering team is spread over many Product teams (think Search, Localisation, Bidding etc) and we use a microservice architecture that has shared ownership from our entire Engineering team.
So what's the job
The impact that you will have, as one of our first Engineering Managers, is massive; You will play an integral part in structuring processes, building on our high-performance culture, and shaping how engineering happens at Catawiki. The 3 most important aspects of your job will be:Strategy & Planning:
Engineering excellence:
Team Building & Management :
How we roll - Our Stack
We work with Ruby on Rails, Go, nginx, MySql, Redis, ElasticSearch, Javascript, React, and Git in an agile development team of 70+ developers (and growing). We have 5 main product verticals with each one being led by an Engineering Manager and Product lead working in tandem.
You'll move in sync with...
As Engineering Manager of one of our product verticals, you will manage 20+ engineers across two or three technology teams. working with them and the Product Lead to craft the roadmap, align it with business goals, and deliver it.
A little about you
The Catawiki Story
A piece of the moon, a complete dinosaur skeleton, the Pope's hat, the world's smallest book - at Catawiki, we come across extraordinary objects such as these every day.
As Europe’s fastest growing online auction platform, our mission is to make special objects available to everyone. In fact, 14 million users are buying and selling on Catawiki every month. This means we are continually growing and always on the lookout for new talent!
Born and raised in The Netherlands, we started in 2008 as a platform where collectors could manage their collections online. Yet, times change, ideas evolve, and in 2011 we hosted our first online auction and we haven’t looked back since! We’ve now grown to 500+ Catawikians working across international offices and are proud to have maintained our start-up mentality.
Here’s what we can offer you
A diverse and international team with over 40 different nationalities, located in the heart of Amsterdam and Assen with an easy-going atmosphere. The Catawiki Community gathers everyone together for everything from ‘CataFooty’ to International Food Festivals, Friday Drinks, Board Game Nights, Pub Quizzes and Boot Camps!
And there’s more! We also provide paid holidays, holiday allowance and a pension plan paid for by Catawiki.
Catawiki is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell special objects. Over 75,000 objects are offered in auction every week - each reviewed and selected by one of Catawiki’s hundreds of in-house experts specialised in Art, Design, Jewellery, Fashion, Classic Cars, Collectables and much more. Catawiki is headquartered in Amsterdam with over 750 employees across the world. Fulfil your passion on catawiki.com or download the app.
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