Hiire is helping Catawiki, the biggest marketplace for special items, hire a Front-end Developer for its office in Lisbon.

The company:

We're a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects! We offer over 75,000 unique items each week 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.

If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us on this exciting journey!

Role Overview:

You will be joining our Logistics team, the one responsible for offering cheaper and better ways of shipping sold items from sellers to buyers.

The team is interdisciplinary, so you will cooperate directly with back-end, front-end, iOS, and Android engineers, and together you are responsible for all shipping and logistics functionality of our Catawiki apps and our web app. 

Along with other Engineering team members, you will build beautiful and adaptable web front-ends on top of scalable microservices. Most of these serve our sellers and buyers, and some are geared towards our own customer services and internal operations teams. 

Apart from the engineers, your other team members are the QA, the UX designer, the Product Manager, and your Tech Lead Manager, who leads and guides the engineers on a daily basis. Along with other Engineering team members, you will build beautiful and adaptable web front-ends on top of scalable microservices. Most of these serve our sellers and buyers, and some are geared towards our own customer services and internal operations teams.

You make sure that your web components will work well and be responsive to desktop, tablet, and mobile screens. And by measuring and monitoring system performance, you optimise the performance of your products.

In addition, you will use A/B experiments, agreed upon with your Product Manager and User Experience Designer, and backed by data analysis, to add product features and deliver the best user experience on the platform.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in collaborating closely with other engineers and product managers to become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team;
• Experience in designing, implementing, and deploying services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and consistency;
• You are proficient in Web technologies - Javascript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS;
• You are familiar with popular libraries like React, NextJS, Redux, CSS Modules, Tailwind, and Rails;
• You understand the browser environment and how it interprets code - HTTP/S, Critical Render Path, CORS, Caching, CDNs;
• You have an understanding of good programming principles, SOLID, DRY, and have a good problem-solving approach and mindset;
• When building features you consider A11y, security, SEO, performance, testing, observability, i18n, and Typing (if applicable);
• You know how to monitor and manage the application in production: you build it, you run it, you love it;
• It would be a great plus if you have Node.js experience.

As a passionate engineer, you bring these values to Catawiki:

• You are a passionate engineer with a strong eye for detail;
• You strive to be a great team player and don’t shy away from new challenges;
• You are someone who takes initiative and is ready to jump in and help if needed;
• You keep the company's values close to your heart;
• You enjoy working in a diverse and dynamic environment;
• You are passionate about what you do and eager to follow industry trends;
• You possess a "growth mindset";
• You have an Experimental Mindset, We value a test-and-learn approach - validate ideas quickly, iterate based on insights, and don’t be afraid to discard what doesn’t work. Once validated, we build for the long term with scalability and maintainability in mind.

Perks:

• A competitive salary;
• A 100€ Catavoucher when you join our team;
• A 50€ Catavoucher for your birthday;
• Learning & Development programs, including clear development and career plans;
• A global, diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment;
• An extra day off each year;
• Additional time off for significant work anniversaries (3, 5, 8, 10 years);
• Extra leave for life’s big moments like marriage, engagements, or moving house.