Engineering Manager

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day.

We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.

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

Your Mission

This core bidding experience team owns services that are central to how customers engage with auctions on our platform. The scope is both technically meaningful and closely tied to the customer experience.

Joining Catawiki as an Engineering Manager means leading a team of engineers across backend and client disciplines while staying close to the technical work. This is not a pure people management role: it requires a strong balance of technical depth, team leadership, and ownership for systems on the critical path. 

What You’ll Do 

Your work as an Engineering Manager will shape how Catawiki evolves the auction journey, helping the team deliver reliable, thoughtful, and high-impact experiences for bidders and buyers.

• Lead a Business-Critical Team: Support and guide a cross-functional engineering focusing on features and systems powering bidding experience, ensuring the team is aligned around meaningful outcomes.
• Drive the Auction Experience Forward: Guide the team to execute a roadmap focusing on improving the core auction experience
• Stay Close to the Technical Work: Contribute to technical discussions, review pull requests, support system design conversations, and help engineers make sound architectural decisions.
• Strengthen Backend-Centric Systems: Work closely with backend engineers on service design, backend flows, observability, and maintainability, reflecting the team’s backend-heavy setup and responsibilities.