Engineering Manager

About Catawiki

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s a rare figurine, a vintage watch, or an unusual piece of art, we encounter exceptional objects daily. We’re a one‑of‑a‑kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects, offering over 75, 000 unique items each week in carefully curated auctions. Having sold over 20 million unique objects to date, we’re on a mission to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects.

As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale‑up, we proudly live by our core values:

• Taking ownership and driving impact
• Being open to change and feedback
• Being passionate about our mission and our customers

Job Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead an agile engineering team for one of our verticals: Fulfillment, Demand, or Supply. Your role will consist of three parts:

Responsibilities

• Bring the vertical forward and shape the strategy for vertical tech foundations to modernize the tech stack and enable faster delivery of product improvements.
• Support the professional growth and development of the engineers: hiring, coaching, empowering, growing, and assessing/promoting them.
• Shape 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 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.

How we roll - Our Stack

As the biggest marketplace for special items, Catawiki operates in a market that 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, learning from mistakes, and iterating quickly.

A little about you

We are looking for people who like to make a big impact and want to build out our engineering culture. Next to that, you bring:

• 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 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

Benefits

• Create a Visible Impact by working at scale in a global organisation that serves millions of customers across 80+ categories.
• Learn and Grow with Us through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes.
• A Culture of Connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse and collaborative team of 800+ Catawikains and 60+ nationalities, all coming together to build a one‑of‑a‑kind marketplace. We foster an inclusive and queer‑friendly work environment, committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered.
• Celebrate Life’s Moments with us at Catawiki. When you join, you’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher, and on each birthday a €50 Catavoucher to celebrate. Enjoy an extra day off each year to "Pursue Your Passion". We also recognise significant work anniversaries (3, 5, 8, 10 years) with additional time off, plus extra leave for life’s big moments like marriage, engagements, or moving house.

Please note that benefits can vary by location. For specific information regarding what’s available in your country, please consult your recruiter.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire and connect. Most Catawikians live within commuting distance of one of our offices and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model. This means we typically ask you to be in the office 2 out of 5 days, roughly 40% of your working time, to collaborate and connect with your colleagues. If the job description specifies 100% remote, that arrangement will apply.

Interested?

Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time