Backend Engineer

About the role

Catawiki is a curated marketplace for special objects, operating at a high scale with millions of monthly visitors. As a Backend Engineer, you will join an autonomous, cross-functional team to design, build, and maintain scalable microservices that support our demand, supply, or fulfillment verticals. You will play a key role in delivering product innovations while ensuring the reliability and performance of our platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable microservices and features.
• Take end-to-end ownership of service quality, resilience, and maintainability throughout the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with product designers, product owners, and other engineers to deliver innovations.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes and advocate for development best practices.
• Fix bugs and refactor code to ensure product reliability.
• Participate in Technical Week to experiment with new technologies and share knowledge.

Required skills

• Object-oriented programming
• Ruby
• API design
• SQL
• Relational databases
• Microservices
• Agile

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience working with customer-facing products in e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS

Benefits

• Work From Home Allowance
• Commuting allowance
• Learning and development initiatives
• Mentorship programmes
• Catavoucher upon joining
• Birthday Catavoucher
• Extra day off for personal passion
• Additional leave for work anniversaries and life events

About the Company

Catawiki is a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects, with over 100,000 items auctioned weekly. We are a diverse and sustainable scale-up with a mission to become the world's most popular destination for special objects.