Full Stack Developer

Who we are

at Catawiki we come across exceptional objects such as these every day.

Catawiki is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell special objects. We offer over 75000 special objects in auction every week each reviewed and selected by one of Catawikis hundreds of inhouse experts specialised in Art Design Jewellery Fashion Classic Cars Collectables and many more.

Weve sold 10 million unique items to date and its our mission to become the worlds most popular auction destination for special objects.

Were an innovative pioneering and fastgrowing scaleup. If you think you can make a difference to our team go ahead and apply.

Catawikis purpose is to enable people to discover and obtain special objects that help them fulfill their passions. In doing so we add some color & make the world a more interesting place.

Our Backend Engineering Story

Our development team is responsible for stability reliability and versatility of Catawikis platform. We are building new and exciting product features to craft an engaging platform where our users can offer and discover special objects. At the same time we are moving the platform towards a microservices architecture by gradually dismantling a Ruby on Rails monolith.

So whats the job

Catawikis promise to users is that well help them find the objects they love and then well take care of the rest. That means that our auctions are 100% curated by experts we speak the same language as our users we make shipping smooth and easy and most importantly the payment is always safe with us!

As a Lead Developer youll report to the Engineering Manager of one of our verticals. Your role will not include people management responsibilities but you will be shaping how the team is optimising our platform and developing new features. Your work will have a huge impact in delivering our promise of being a robust reliable secure and delightful platform. The 3 most important aspects of your job will be:

Team

• Ensuring a healthy team environment where members feel safe trusted respected happy
• Supporting diversity of thoughts ensure everyones voice is heard inside the team and people feel they have a stake in teamlevel decisions
• Empowering team members to take ownership / drive some of the teams ceremonies (e.g. standups demo sessions retros backlog groomings sprint plannings)

Delivery

• Owning shortterm (12 months ahead) roadmap of the team in partnership with a Product Manager driving clarity proactively communicating the updates to the team and making sure they are aligned on goals
• Proactively flag issues / impediments that could affect delivery of the teams work to the teams stakeholders and propose mitigation ideas
• Oversee the delivery of the teams work

Technical excellence

• Facilitating adoption of engineering best practices in the team and keeping the bar at the right level
• Keeping the team accountable for building solutions aligned with the companywide technical directions
• Facilitating & ensuring that production incidents are analysed and right actions are followed up by the team

How we roll Our stack

As the biggest marketplace for special items Catawiki operates in a market which brings a lot of unusual challenges and opportunities. You will be developing testing and scaling our microservices written in Ruby and some of them in Go to handle the high volume served by the platform every single day. We do this by using Infrastructure as Code principles collaborative peerreviews delivering code to production multiple times a day A/B testing various assumptions making mistakes learning from them and iterating quickly.

A little about you

Catawiki is looking for people that like to make a big impact. We love people who want to make a contribution to further building out our engineering culture and who want to have some fun along the way. Next to this you:

• Have proven experience as a team leader
• Are versed in tackling complex projects breaking it down into estimable chunks identifying the right technical order for a project dependencies risks proposing mitigations.
• Have experience in designing developing and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability low latency and scalability.
• Understand that the value you can add to the business the product is done via the rest of the team not necessarily only by you
• Have a solid understanding of software engineering best practices.

The Catawiki Story

A piece of the moon a complete dinosaur skeleton the Popes hat the worlds smallest book at Catawiki we come across exceptional objects such as these every single day. As Europes 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 havent looked back since! Weve now grown to 500 Catawikians working across 7 International offices and are proud to have maintained our startup mentality.

Heres what we can offer you

This is your chance to join our mission to fulfil peoples passions as part of a young and dynamic organisation. Youll be part of an enthusiastic highlymotivated team of 800 Catawikians. Additionally you can expect:

• A challenging role in a diverse international and fastgrowing organisation with over 50 nationalities.
• Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties boat rides and regular team events.
• Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki.
• Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activitybased working suited to the team and individual responsibilities
• We care about our teams wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services singlesession therapy wellness support and more.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth;
• We want to help you celebrate special occasions in life by:
  • providing employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers;
  • Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3 5 8 and 10 years;
  • Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving engagement & marriage;
  • Each year Catawikians get an additional days leave to Pursue their Passion!

Please note that our benefits offering changes depending on which country you are employed in. For our countryspecific offering please ask your recruiter.

Our commitment to you

Catawikis eclectic team represents an international and intergenerational mix of people from different professional and cultural backgrounds. We foster an inclusive and queerfriendly work environment committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered. Whatever your story we encourage you to bring your unique perspective to the table.

Catawiki stands with Ukraine and encourages people displaced by the current conflict to apply. In addition to the several initiatives weve launched were open to ideas on ways we can continue to support the humanitarian effort.

Our offices and way of working

We have sensational offices in Amsterdam Groningen Paris and our newest office in Lisbon. Most of our employees are within commutable distance of one of our office locations and enjoy a hybrid work model. This means we expect you to be in the office 2 out of 5 days roughly 40% of your working time to collaborate and connect with each other. The exception is of course if the job description specifically states that the role is 100% remote as some experts and sales positions are.

Interested

Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page. By submitting your application you agree to .

If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.