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About the Role
Catawiki is a unique marketplace for buying and selling special objects. The Engineering team is focused on delivering the best platform experience by building best-in-class products for search and discovery, bidding, curation, logistics, payments, and support. As a Backend Engineer, you will support one of our three verticals (Demand, Supply, or Fulfilment), improving and delivering product innovations for our platform.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable, maintainable, and resilient microservices and features.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve scalable microservices and features.
- Own the quality, resilience, and maintainability of team services throughout their lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product designers, product owners, and frontend, backend, and mobile engineers.
- Identify opportunities to make engineering processes more effective and efficient.
- Document and advocate for development best practices.
- Fix bugs and refactor the codebase to keep products reliable and maintainable.
- Test new technologies and participate in Technical Week for creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Understand the full lifecycle of web development.
- Identify opportunities, explore solutions, and keep customer needs at the center of your work.
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Experience with object-oriented programming.
- 3+ years of experience working with customer-facing products in industries such as e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS.
- Experience designing, implementing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and consistency.
- Good understanding of API design, SQL, and relational databases.
- Excellent English communication skills.
- Comfort raising concerns, sharing ideas, and documenting your work.
- Contribute to the team, take initiative, and help when needed.
- Actively identify opportunities and explore alternative approaches to solving problems.
- Take ownership of developing your skills by learning new technologies and seeking new opportunities.
- Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter.
Skills
- Object-oriented programming
- Backend service design, implementation, and deployment
- API design
- SQL
- Relational databases
- Agile methodologies
Location
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of experience working with customer-facing products
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Annual Gross Base Salary depending on your level, competencies, and overall experience.
Benefits
- Work From Home Allowance
- Commuting covered
- €100 Catavoucher upon joining
- €50 Catavoucher on your birthday
- Extra day off each year to 'Pursue Your Passion'
- Additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events
About the Company
- Catawiki is a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects.
- More than 100,000 unique items are auctioned weekly, curated by in-house experts.
- Mission: To become the world’s most popular destination for special objects.
- A growing, diverse, and sustainable scale-up.
- Core values: Taking ownership and driving impact, Being open to change and feedback, Being passionate about our mission and our customers.
- Engineering team is on a mission to deliver the best experience across platforms.
- Tackling customer-facing challenges at high scale with 75,000 auctions per week and over 10 million visitors per month.
- Engineers work in small, fully autonomous, highly collaborative Agile teams.
- Value bold thinking, curiosity, openness, initiative, and a strong customer focus.
- Technical Week creates dedicated space for experimentation, creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
- Part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 800+ Catawikians.
- Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers.
- Flat structure where every role has a broad scope and directly impacts customers and the business.
- Learn and grow through Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes.
- Culture of connection: passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities.
- Foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment.
- Vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon designed to inspire collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
- We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.