Engineering Manager - Shipping

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction and system ownership for the Fulfilment domain , ensuring scalable, maintainable architecture that supports long-term product ambitions.
• Improve the post-order customer experience , reducing shipping friction and increasing reliability across the buyer journey.
• Partner closely with Product and UX to shape the roadmap, translate business priorities into technical strategy, and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Enable faster and higher-quality delivery, establish engineering standards, improve processes, and introduce measurable quality metrics.
• Navigate ambiguity in a scale-up environment , balancing immediate delivery needs with strategic platform improvements.

Requirements

• 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:
• Strong software engineering foundation with 5-10 years of experience.
• Proven people leadership experience (1-2+ years) growing, coaching, and developing engineers, including managing performance and career progression.
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams , partnering effectively with Product, UX and business stakeholders.
• Technical decision-making confidence, guiding teams through architectural trade-offs and complex system challenges.
• Ownership mindset , able to tackle problems end-to-end and drive solutions forward in ambiguous situations.
• Marketplace, e-commerce or scale-up experience (nice to have) , particularly in logistics, shipping, or post-order flows.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills , influencing across teams and seniority levels.
• 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.
• How We Work
• You will work with engineering teams based across Amsterdam and Lisbon, being part of a growing engineering and product hub in Portugal.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders across product, design, data, and commercial teams.
• You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• You will operate in an environment that values clarity, ownership, and measurable impact.
• Where You'll Be
• This is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from our Lisbon Office a minimum of 2 days per week.
• In Return
• You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 800+ Catawikians .
• A competitive Annual Gross Base Salary depending on your level, competencies, and overall experience.
• Meal Allowance Card stipend per working day, in addition to salary.
• Health Insurance from day 1 (including dental coverage), with access to multiple hospitals and clinics and a vast wellness network.
• A Work From Home Allowance to help with your monthly household bills.
• Commuting between your

Benefits

Additional Information

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 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.

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