Who we are
A piece of the moon, a complete dinosaur skeleton, the Pope's hat,
the world's smallest book - at Catawiki, we come across extraordinary
objects such as these every day.
As Europe’s fastest growing online auction platform, our mission is
to make special objects available to everyone. In fact, 14 million users
are buying and selling on Catawiki every month. This means we are
continually growing and always on the lookout for new talent!
Born and raised in The Netherlands, we started in 2008 as a platform
where collectors could manage their collections online. Yet, times
change, ideas evolve, and in 2011 we hosted our first online auction and
we haven’t looked back since! We’ve now grown to 450 Catawikians
working across 7 international offices and are proud to have maintained
our start-up mentality.
Our Data Story
With thousands of active lots every day, hundreds of thousands of
daily bids, millions of users, and countless marketing campaigns, the
Catawiki platform generates vast amount of data every day. This data
is being collected and stored in the Data warehouse, which is used
extensively by our team of 10 analysts and data scientists. There are
also hundreds of active internal users of our Web interface to the Data
warehouse.
As Catawiki grows and produces more data, our Analysts would like
to perform even more sophisticated analyses, our Data Scientists want
more data, and yes, Product owners want more dashboards! With this in
mind, Catawiki is building a new distributed data platform using tools
from the Hadoop ecosystem that can accommodate the rapidly growing
amount of data and requirements of analysts, data scientists, and
product owners.
We have started streaming event data and writing data pipelines in
Apache Airflow that transform this data with Apache Spark, and now
Catawiki needs more Data Engineers to help us tackle the challenge of
bringing even more data sources into our platform and transforming and
organizing this data for analysis and consumption by other applications.
It’s a big challenge but one that we’re really excited about solving.
What you will do
Evolve our current infrastructure to a
distributed system and help build scalable data pipelines using the
Hadoop ecosystem. You will work in cooperation with our Software
Engineers, Devops Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers to:
- Explore new ways of transforming and analyzing data and continuously expand and improve the performance of our data pipelines.
- Build
prototypes, fast, and determine what their worth are in the business and
within the infrastructure before iterating and improving them.
- Work
closely with Data Scientists and Product Managers to decide how best to
structure and store data in order to make it easily accessible to
business users.
- Evaluate
and develop highly distributed Big Data solutions; You will advance our
software architecture and tool set to meet growing business requirements
regarding performance and data-quality.
Who you are
- A Data
Engineer who likes to experiment with and explore new tools and
technologies. You will be familiar with tools in the Hadoop ecosystem
including Spark, Kafka, Hive or similar.
- You are a Software Engineer with experience in modern backend web technologies.
- You know how to design and build low-maintenance, high performing ETL processes and Data pipelines.
- You can communicate an idea clearly on various levels of abstraction, depending on the audience.
- Professional experience with relational databases: reading, writing and optimizing complex statements.
- We have a strong preference for someone experienced with Python rather than Java.
Here's what we can offer you
- A diverse and international team with over 40 different nationalities.
- Trendy offices located in the heart of Amsterdam and Assen with an easy-going atmosphere.
- Our entrepreneurial environment encourages everyone to take initiative and experiment with new ideas. You’ll actively contribute to the growth of the Catawiki platform.
- Tailor-made trainings to facilitate your personal and professional growth.
- The fun part! Our Activity Committee plan
everything from ‘CataFooty’ to International Food Festivals, Friday
Drinks, Board Game Nights, Pub Quizzes and Boot Camps!
- And there’s more! Paid holidays, holiday allowance and a pension plan paid for by Catawiki.
Interested?
Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page.
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