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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** Catawiki - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software as a Service, Relational Databases, Web Development, Object-Oriented Software Development, Ruby, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, System Availability, Backend, Low Latency, Data Management, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Microservices - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3f776b9fe700d672 ## About the Role You understand the full lifecycle of web development, identify opportunities, explore solutions, and keep customer needs at the center of your work. Our stack is mainly focused on Ruby; however, prior Ruby experience is not essential if you're passionate about learning new things. * Strong software engineering foundations: 7+ years of software development experience, specifically with object-oriented programming. * Relevant product experience: 3+ years of experience working with customer-facing products in industries such as e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS. * Backend service expertise: Experience designing, implementing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and consistency. * API and data knowledge: A good understanding of API design, SQL, and relational databases. * Clear communication: Excellent English communication skills and comfort raising concerns, sharing ideas, and documenting your work. * Collaborative mindset: You contribute to the team, take initiative, and step in to help when needed. * Solution-oriented thinking: You actively identify opportunities and explore alternative approaches to solving problems. * Commitment to growth: You take ownership of developing your skills by learning new technologies and seeking new opportunities. ## Description On our path to becoming the most visited online curated marketplace for special objects, our Engineering team is on a mission to deliver the best experience across our platforms by building best-in-class products for search and discovery, bidding, curation, logistics, payments, and support. We're a scale-up tackling customer-facing challenges at high scale, with 75,000 auctions per week and more than 10 million visitors per month. As a Backend Engineer, you'll support one of our three verticals - Demand, Supply, or Fulfilment - improving and delivering product innovations for our platform. Working in a small, fully autonomous, and highly collaborative Agile team, you will build scalable, maintainable, and resilient microservices and features. That's why we're looking for developers who share ideas, explore options, and communicate openly., You'll be part of a team with end-to-end responsibility for its own microservices, collaborating across disciplines to build, operate, and continuously improve our products. * Build end-to-end by designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving scalable microservices and features. * Own what you deliver, taking responsibility for the quality, resilience, and maintainability of your team's services throughout their lifecycle. * Collaborate across disciplines while closely working with product designers, product owners, and frontend, backend, and mobile engineers to share ideas and deliver product innovations. * Improve how we work, identifying opportunities to make our engineering processes more effective and efficient. * Strengthen our engineering culture by documenting and advocating for development best practices across the team. * Raise product quality by fixing bugs and refactoring the codebase where necessary to keep our products reliable and maintainable. * Learn and experiment by testing new technologies and participating in Technical Week - a week dedicated to creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing across domains after every two product sprints., Our engineers work in small, fully autonomous, and highly collaborative Agile teams aligned with one of three verticals: Demand, Supply, or Fulfilment. * Teams are responsible for their own microservices from design and development through deployment, maintenance, and improvement. * Engineers collaborate closely with product designers, product owners, and frontend, backend, and mobile colleagues. * We value bold thinking, curiosity, openness, initiative, and a strong customer focus. * Technical Week creates dedicated space for experimentation, creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing across domains., This is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from our Lisbon Office a minimum of 2 days per week., * Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression. * A culture of connection defines us. We're a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work. * Celebrate life's moments with us. You'll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to "Pursue Your Passion". We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. 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