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.
As an Engineering Manager in our Fulfilment domain, you will lead a cross-functional team focused on improving the post-order journey - especially the shipping and delivery experience for our buyers and sellers. Shipping is one of the most critical and friction-prone parts of our marketplace. Your mission is to build a strong, empowered engineering team and shape the technical foundations that make our fulfilment experience reliable, scalable and customer-centric.
You won’t be coding full-time, but you will own the technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and ensure we build systems that enable faster, safer product delivery. At the same time, you’ll grow engineers into high performers and future leaders. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our marketplace experience.
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, leading and growing a high-performing engineering team, creating a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
You measure what matters, stay close to the details when needed, and know when to guide versus when to step in. You are comfortable balancing technical leadership with people leadership, and you care deeply about the team, the systems, and the outcomes they own. Next to this, you have:
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly match every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be exactly who we’re looking for.
This is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from our Lisbon Office a minimum of 2 days per week.
You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 850+ Catawikians
Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based.
Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter. By applying, you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Catawiki is the leading online marketplace for special objects. Over 100,000 objects are offered 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 much more. Catawiki is headquartered in Amsterdam with over 750 employees across the world.
