Engineering Manager, Catawiki
2 days a week in office
Online auctioning for special objects
Be an early applicant
Online auctioning for special objects
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide an exciting and seamless experience to customers for buying and selling special, hard-to-find objects.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for people who 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 with their colleagues along the way
- Experience in a managerial role, with a proven track record of growing engineers
- Hands-on experience in software development
- Proven track record of leading a team to deliver product initiatives aligned with the business objectives
- Proven track record of partnering with Product and UX peers to design and deliver products
- Experience leading cross-functional teams with stakeholders in a matrix organization
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one agile engineering team for one of our Verticals: Fulfillment, Demand, or Supply, and your role will consist of three parts:
- Bringing the vertical forward and shaping the strategy for vertical tech foundations in order to modernize the tech stack and enable faster delivery of product improvements
- Supporting the professional growth and development of the engineers: hiring, coaching, empowering, growing, and assessing/promoting them
- Shaping how the team can deliver on its mission and vision. The most important aspects are:
- Provide leadership and guidance to the engineers in code quality and maintainability, contributing to the design and architecture of the team's domain
- Partner with the Product and UX peers to detail the team's roadmap and deliver product initiatives with customer-centricity principles in mind
- Together with the engineers on the team, shape the tech foundations for the team's domain to enable the delivery of new product features in a fast and high-quality manner
- Establish quality metrics to track and analyze the effectiveness of the team's software delivery processes
- 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, to handle the high volume served by the platform every single day
- We do this by using Infrastructure as Code principles, collaborative peer-reviews, delivering code to production multiple times a day, A/B testing various assumptions, sometimes making mistakes, learning from them, and iterating quickly
Our take
In the past, it was only possible to purchase special items such as rare coins, antiques, and vintage cars at auctions held at physical locations. These days, many people prefer online auctions, but whilst they provide a wider range of objects for sale, this comes at the cost of proper pricing and quality control. Catawiki provides an expert-regulated online auctioning marketplace where users can browse and bid for special objects easily via the web or mobile app.
The objects listed on Catawiki are curated, valued, and verified by in-house experts, with over 65,000 objects passing through the marketplace every week. In this approach, the company has combined the community knowledge found at traditional auctions with the benefits of digital auctioning platforms, occupying a space that has long remained empty, and avoiding competition from bidding marketplace giants such as eBay.
Catawiki has received good funding in the past, which contributed to it becoming the success it is today. A recent venture has seen the company expand to serve artisanal artists with its handmade products auction series.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$157.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2015
$78.9m
SERIES C
Total funding: $247.3m
Company benefits
- 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 activity-based 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, single-session therapy, wellness support and more
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth
- Provide 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 day’s leave to Pursue their Passion!
Company values
- Take ownership: We’re continually building. Each and every one of us takes initiative to grow our business
- Delight our customer: We strive to be our customers’ preferred destination in their ongoing search for the special objects that fulfil their passions
- Move in sync: We each play a role in Catawiki’s success and we only succeed if we are successful together
- Be geeky: We embrace new and scalable technologies to be able to lead the offline to online transition of the world of special objects
- Be open: We are always learning and evolving in order to challenge convention. We remain humble, flexible and curious
- Be passionate: We go deep, solve complex problems and innovate in order to be experts in our fields
Company HQ
Westelijk Havengebied, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Marco Jansen
(Co-Founder)Founder and CTO of LastDodo, with experience as Project Manager for ThoughtWorks from 2004 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki as CTO in 2008.
René Schoenmakers
(Co-Founder)Founder & CEO of LastDodo and of Vipio. Managing Director of Ordina's subsidiaries Wisdom and The Missing Link from 2006 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki in 2016 as CEO.
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