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 and discovery, bidding, curation, logistics, payments, and support.
We’re a scale-up tackling customer-facing challenges at high scale, with 75,000 auctions per week and more than 10 million visitors per month. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll support one of our three verticals - Demand, Supply, or Fulfilment - improving and delivering product innovations for our platform.
Working in a small, fully autonomous, and highly collaborative Agile team, you will build scalable, maintainable, and resilient microservices and features. That’s why we’re looking for developers who share ideas, explore options, and communicate openly.
You’ll be part of a team with end-to-end responsibility for its own microservices, collaborating across disciplines to build, operate, and continuously improve our products.
- Build end-to-end by designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving scalable microservices and features.
- Own what you deliver, taking responsibility for the quality, resilience, and maintainability of your team’s services throughout their lifecycle.
- Collaborate across disciplines while closely working with product designers, product owners, and frontend, backend, and mobile engineers to share ideas and deliver product innovations.
- Improve how we work, identifying opportunities to make our engineering processes more effective and efficient.
- Strengthen our engineering culture by documenting and advocating for development best practices across the team.
- Raise product quality by fixing bugs and refactoring the codebase where necessary to keep our products reliable and maintainable.
- Learn and experiment by testing new technologies and participating in Technical Week - a week dedicated to creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing across domains after every two product sprints.
This is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from our Lisbon Hub a minimum of 2 days per week.
At this time, we are only considering candidates who are already based in Portugal. As a result, visa sponsorship and relocation support are not available for this position.
- Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business.
- Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.
- A culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.
- Celebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location.
Our Offices and Way of Working
Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based.
Interested?
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