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At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day. We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts. Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us. Taking ownership and driving impact. Being open to change and feedback. Being passionate about our mission and our customers. Your Mission: This core bidding experience team owns services that are central to how customers engage with auctions on our platform. The scope is both technically meaningful and closely tied to the customer experience. Joining Catawiki as an Engineering Manager means leading a team of engineers across backend and client disciplines while staying close to the technical work. This is not a pure people management role: it requires a strong balance of technical depth, team leadership, and ownership for systems on the critical path.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a business-critical team: Support and guide a cross-functional engineering focusing on features and systems powering bidding experience, ensuring the team is aligned around meaningful outcomes
Drive the auction experience forward: Guide the team to execute a roadmap focusing on improving the core auction experience
Stay close to the technical work: Contribute to technical discussions, review pull requests, support system design conversations, and help engineers make sound architectural decisions
Strengthen backend-centric systems: Work closely with backend engineers on service design, backend flows, observability, and maintainability, reflecting the team’s backend-heavy setup and responsibilities
Create a healthy, effective team environment: Coach engineers, help them grow, organize the team for success, and support day-to-day collaboration across different engineering disciplines
Own outcomes proactively: Take responsibility for the health of critical-path systems, help anticipate risks, and make sure technical and team issues are addressed with urgency and care
Requirements:
Backend-strong: You bring a strong backend background and are comfortable reasoning about backend services, system flows, architecture, observability, and maintainability
Hands-on technical leader: You engage in technical discussions, support system design, review engineering work, and partner with engineers on implementation decisions
People manager with range: 2+ years in people management experience, with a record of navigating topics such as coaching, feedback, team dynamics, and difficult conversations
Outcome-driven: You have a strong bias for action and a track record of setting and delivering against ambitious goals
Proactive and reliable: You stay on top of what is happening in the team and its services, especially when working with systems on the critical path to the business
Clear communicator: You can discuss ideas clearly, facilitate conversations around architecture and trade-offs, and work effectively with engineers and stakeholders across the organisation
What we offer:
€100 Catavoucher when you join
€50 Catavoucher on your birthday
An extra day off each year to 'Pursue Your Passion'
Additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events
Learning and development initiatives including clear development plans and mentorship programmes
A culture of connection with a diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities