Careers

Working here

Worldwatch.market B.V. is based in Amsterdam and works on an ambitious goal with smart people. The team is small enough that the same people write the software, answer the support mail and talk to dealers. An engineer here is never kept away from the people using what they built.

There are ten of us, the work is hybrid, and the team works in English.

The work rewards knowing how watches are actually bought and sold. A watch is a serial number, a service history, a purchase invoice and a margin, and software that treats it as a product with a price loses all four. That is learnable, and everyone here has had to learn some of it. It is faster if you already know it, although we are very open to experience from other industries.

Who we hire

There is rarely a job posted. These are the letters worth writing anyway.

• Engineers who have built something that had to be right, and who want to sit close to the people using it.
• Dealers. If you have traded professionally in any similar industry and you know precisely why the software you use is wrong, that is worth more here than a computer science degree. Several of the best decisions in this product came from a dealer saying “that is not how it works”.
• Someone who can write. Worldwatch publishes guides the trade actually relies on, and there is more to write than there is time to write it.

If you are none of those and still think you belong here, say why in three sentences.

Writing in

The contact page reaches us. Tell us what you have built or what you have traded, what you would want to work on, and where you are. Attach whatever stands for your work: a repository, a shop, a spreadsheet you are proud of, a piece you wrote.

Before you write

Two pages will tell you more about the work than anything here: About, for why the product exists, and Features, for what it does today. If you have sold watches for a living, say so in the first line.