Principal Back-End Engineer, Catawiki
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Online auctioning for special objects
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Online auctioning for special objects
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make special objects more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Proven expertise in shaping and delivering long-term technical strategies for business verticals and engineering organizations
- Forward-thinking perspective that addresses scaling, usage, and business needs beyond current horizons
- Skill in navigating across domains, connecting teams, and devising optimal solutions
- Demonstrated ability to shape technology landscapes with consideration for present and future challenges
- Proficiency in tackling complex architecture challenges and applying architectural standards to new projects
- Strong decision-making ability to influence product scope and technical trade-offs for swift, high-quality delivery
- Passion to foster strong engineering culture that helps product teams deliver quality software products
- Dedication to mentoring and collaboration, promoting a culture of learning and growth
- Experience in hiring engineers and improving the hiring process to attract top-tier talent
What the job involves
- As the biggest marketplace for special items, Catawiki operates in a domain which brings plenty of unusual challenges and opportunities. You will be developing, testing and scaling our microservices, mostly written in Ruby, to handle the high volume of requests served by the platform every single day
- We do this by using Infrastructure as Code principles, collaborative peer-reviews, Continuous Delivery, A/B testing every assumption and using the observability and monitoring tools already in place. We make mistakes and learn valuable lessons from them. Our focus is to be able to recover and iterate quickly
- In the role of Principal Backend Engineer at Catawiki, you will be a role model in our organization and have a wider impact in your business vertical and engineering organization. You will work closely with other Principal Engineers and senior Engineering, Product and Design leadership in your business vertical, you will define a comprehensive long-term technical strategy for your vertical and the broader engineering organization
- Beyond this, as a technical expert for the backend platform within your business vertical, you will provide guidance to multiple teams and shape our microservice landscape in anticipation of future scalability demands
- Your responsibilities will include mentoring less experienced engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture by setting software engineering best practices both within and beyond your business vertical, and actively participating in the hiring process to attract top engineering talent across various levels. By partnering with product teams, you will contribute to the evolution of our technology landscape, ensuring that it aligns with the overarching goals of the organization
- As an accomplished Principal Engineer, you possess a track record of delivering multi-year, multi-team goals that span the scope of your business vertical and the engineering organization as a whole.You will bring a multi-year, industry-leading technical perspective, ensuring our products are adaptable to scale, usage, and future business needs. You adeptly navigate domain boundaries, connecting initiatives and teams to craft optimal solutions
- In collaboration with product teams, you expertly determine technical trade-offs, ensuring customer value is delivered rapidly without compromising quality. Your commitment to mentorship and collaboration shines through as you guide less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning within the engineering organization. Drawing from your experience, you enhance our hiring process to attract and onboard the best engineering talent
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 100,000 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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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$172.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2015
$86.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $270.9m
Company HQ
Westelijk Havengebied, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Ravi V.
(CEO)Ravi joined Catawiki in 2017 as Chief Demand Officer, becoming CEO in 2018. Prior to this, he was Chief Marketing & Business Officer at HOOQ. He also spent 4 years at Flipkart as VP of Marketing and CEO.
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