Hiire is helping Catawiki, the biggest marketplace for special items, hire an Engineering Manager 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:

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one agile engineering team for one of our Verticals: Fulfillment, Demand, or Supply, and your role will consist of three parts:

1. 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.
2. Supporting the professional growth and development of the engineers: hiring, coaching, empowering, growing, and assessing/promoting them.
3. Shaping how the team can deliver on its mission and vision. The most important aspects are:
   1. Provide leadership and guidance to the engineers in code quality and maintainability, contributing to the design and architecture of the team's domain.
   2. Partner with the Product and UX peers to detail the team's roadmap and deliver product initiatives with customer-centricity principles in mind.
   3. 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 high-quality manner.
   4. Establish quality metrics to track and analyze the effectiveness of the team's software delivery processes

You will be developing, testing, and scaling our microservices, mostly written in Ruby, to handle the high volume of requests served by the platform every single day, while measuring and monitoring system performance. We do this by using Infrastructure as Code principles, collaborative peer reviews, Continuous Delivery, A/B testing every assumption, and using the observability and monitoring tools already in place.

Qualifications:

• Experience in a managerial role, with a proven track record of growing engineers;
• Hands-on 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 cross-functional teams with stakeholders in a matrix organization.

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.