Catawiki - Senior Backend Software Engineer

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary!
We're a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects! Each week we offer over 75,000 unique items in auction, carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

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.

How we work

As the biggest marketplace for special items, Catawiki operates in a domain that 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.

What you’ll do:

Here at Catawiki, you will make an impact by improving and delivering product innovations for the Catawiki platform. Along with other members of the Development team, you will build scalable microservices while measuring and monitoring system performance. In addition, you will use experimentation, backed by data analysis, to add product features and deliver the best user experience on the platform.

Requirements

We look for engineers who are motivated to learn new things, ship new features, and pursue new and interesting challenges. Our stack is mainly focused around Ruby, however, if you’re passionate about learning new things then prior experience with Ruby is not essential. Next to this:

• At least, 7+ years of experience in software development, in specific with OOP (object-oriented programming)
• You have experience in designing, implementing and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and consistency.
• You have proven experience of collaborating closely with other engineers to become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.
• You have mentored junior engineers and you enjoy cooperating with engineers throughout the company.
• You understand the value that you can add to the business, the product and the impact of your work on customers.
• You feel comfortable documenting RFCS and describing problems, opportunities, pros and cons of solution alternatives.
• Excellent communication in English

Benefits

This role is based in Lisbon, Portugal. We offer an excellent relocation package for people living outside of Portugal.

Most Catawikians are within commuting distance of one of our offices and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model. This means that you will be in the office 2 out of 5 days (40% of your working time) to collaborate and connect with your colleagues.

You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 850+ Catawikians.

International and fast-growing organization with over 50 nationalities.

22 days of Holiday days + National Holidays

Health Insurance

Meal Card per working day on top of salary

Working-from-home Allowance

Hybrid way of working between home and office (2 days in the office)

Flexible working hours policy

Holistic Wellbeing Programme including: clinical services, single-session therapy, wellness support and more.

Tailored Learning & Development program

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