Engineering Manager - Den Haag, Nederland - Catawiki

Catawiki

Geverifieerd bedrijf

Den Haag, Nederland

3 weken geleden

Geplaatst door:

Daan Van den Berg

werver van beBee

Beschrijving

Who we are

,, - at Catawiki, we come across exceptional objects such as these every day.

Catawiki is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell special objects.

We offer over 75,000 special objects in auction every week — each reviewed and selected by one of Catawiki's hundreds of in-house experts specialised in Art, Design, Jewellery, Fashion, Classic Cars, Collectables and many more.

We've sold 10 million unique items to date and it's our mission to become the world's most popular auction destination for special objects.

We're an innovative, pioneering and fast-growing scale-up. If you think you can make a difference to our team, go ahead and apply.

So what's the job

As an Engineering Manager you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager of a Product Vertical.

Your role consists of three parts:

You are part of the Management team in one of our Verticals (Demand, Supply or Fulfillment)and of the collective of Tech Lead Managers at Catawiki. As such, you play an active role in bringing the vertical forward and shaping the strategy for vertical tech foundations in order to modernize the tech stack and enable faster delivery of product improvements.
You are responsible and accountable for hiring, coaching, empowering, growing, and assessing/promoting the engineers in your team.
You will be shaping 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, contribute to the design and architecture of the team's domain, support professional growth and development of the engineers
Partner with the Product and UX peers to detail out the team's roadmap and deliver product initiatives with customercentricity 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 highquality 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, which 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, sometimes making mistakes, learning from them, and iterating quickly.

A little about you

We are looking for people who like to make a big impact.

We love people who want to make a contribution to further building out our engineering culture and who want to have some fun with their colleagues along the way.

Next to this you have

At least 2 years of experience in a managerial role, with a proven track record of growing engineers
Minimum of 5 years of handson experience in software development
Proven track record of leading a team to deliver product initiatives aligned with the business objectives
Proven track record of partnering with Product and UX peers to design and deliver products
Experience leading crossfunctional teams with stakeholders in a matrix organization

Here's what we can offer you

This is your chance to join our mission to fulfill people's passions as part of a young and dynamic organization.

You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 800+ Catawikians.

Additionally, you can expect:

A challenging role in a diverse, international and fastgrowing organisation with over 50 nationalities.
Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties, boat rides and regular team events.
Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki.
Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activitybased working, suited to the team and individual responsibilities
We care about our teams' wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services, singlesession therapy, wellness support and more.
Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth;

We want to help you celebrate special occasions in life by:

Provide employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers;
Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3, 5, 8 and 10 years;
Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving, engagement & marriage;
Each year Catawikians get an additional day's leave to Pursue their Passion

Please note that our benefits offering changes depending on which country you are employed in. For our country-specific offering please ask your recruiter.

Our commitment to you

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