Junior Backend Engineer, Catawiki
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2+ days a week in office
Online auctioning for special objects
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Online auctioning for special objects
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
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 look for engineers motivated to learn new things, ship new features, and pursue new and interesting challenges
- Our backend stack focuses on Ruby (not too different from Python), and the frontend is mainly built using TypeScript and React
- However, if you’re passionate about learning new things, prior experience with Ruby is unnecessary
- At least 1 year of experience in your first full-time job
- A completed Master's degree
- Some experience collaborating with others in a professional or academic setting, whether with other engineers and product managers in a software development environment, or similar interactions in another organization, making you a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
- You have experience with at least one mainstream programming language (including, without limitation, Ruby, Python, Go, C++, C#, Java, Scala, Kotlin, etc.) and the willingness to learn other programming languages as necessary (we use Ruby)
- You have some fundamental knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Nice to have: You are familiar with Application Programming Interfaces, whether the API is a web technology such as HTTP, REST, JSON, etc., or another API technology such as gRPC
- You are a passionate engineer with a strong eye for detail
- You strive to be a great team player and don’t shy away from new challenges
- You are someone who takes initiative and is ready to jump in and help if needed
- You keep the company's values close to your heart
- You enjoy working in a diverse and dynamic environment.
- You possess a "growth mindset" in which you take the initiative to further your personal skill set as a software developer, whether by learning new skills and/or technologies or by seeking new opportunities
What the job involves
- On our path to becoming the most visited online curated marketplace for special objects, our Engineering team is on a mission to deliver the best experience across our platforms by building best-in-class products for search & discovery, bidding, curation, logistics, payments, and support
- We're a scale-up with customer-facing challenges dealing with high-scale (75k auctions per week) and high traffic (more than 10 million visitors per month)
- As a Junior Software Engineer, you’ll support one of our 3 verticals - Demand, Supply, or Fulfilment - improving and delivering product innovations for our platform
- Working in small, fully autonomous, and highly collaborative Agile teams, you will build scalable, maintainable, and resilient microservices and features. That's why we are looking for bold, curious and open developers
- Build: Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve. You’ll be part of a team that is end-to-end responsible for their own microservices
- Collaborate: Work closely with product designers, product owners, front, back, and mobile engineers to share new ideas and make our processes even more efficient
- Growth: Support our great engineering culture, by documenting and advocating for best development practices - constantly improving the quality of our products by fixing bugs and refactoring the code base where necessary
- Learn: Boost your career by testing new technologies and participating in our Technical Week (after 2 product sprints): a week dedicated to promoting creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing across domains
- As a Junior Engineer, you have a lot of growth and opportunities ahead of you
- At Catawiki, we will give you much room to explore your interests and strengths and provide you with the support you need to grow rapidly and become a true back-end professional
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.
Freddie
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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