Senior Software Engineer - Foundations

Hello!

Would you love to improve the way companies take care of their people their most valuable asset
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Foundations team at Factorial.

Foundations

Our mission is to build the foundational modules patterns and tools that enable a consistent high-quality user experiences across the platform.
To do this we work in a super horizontal way on the one hand working on the main building blocks of factorial core abstractions and the hybrid experience with mobile.
We also lead the projects of the main information aggregators of Factorial such as the home and inbox. Challenging right

The role

As a Senior Engineer at Factorial youll be part of a team of 150 product developers. We look for talented people who are curious proactive and have great communication skills. People who are at the forefront of developing tools that help teams become the best versions of themselves.
Youll work in a multicultural English-speaking environment where your technical acumen creative problem-solving abilities and passion for user-centric products will directly contribute to our mission of improving HR processes for SMEs worldwide. Its your choice to work from home in our Barcelona offices or mixing both.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails for the backend React for the frontend and React Native for the mobile part.
At the moment were looking for a Backend Frontend and Mobile Engineers ideally with previous experience with these technologies.

Work ethics

At Factorial we know that building a great product means building a great team. We value some key principles that help us thrive together.

• Radical (and Passionate) Candor: Were excited about creating great products and advancing our mission. This means being proactive obsessing about quality and experimenting. We tell our managers and peers things we think we cannot say practicing radical candor to drive innovation and improvement.
• Effective Communication: Clear communication especially in writing is crucial. We communicate openly build narratives and arent afraid to debate ideas. If we cant explain something clearly we seek to understand more deeply until we can. And remember English is our vehicular language so you need to be comfortable with it!
• Product Vision: We understand our users needs and actively engage with them. We constantly look for business opportunities always asking What can be next for Factorial
• Reliability and Accountability: We deliver on our commitments while maintaining high quality. We feel accountable for the culture and make others feel accountable too. When we see something broken we stand up to fix it feeling responsible for all of Factorial.
• Problem-Solving: We dont limit ourselves to our nominal job definition. We bring execute and later communicate solutions seeking approval only for decisions that would be hard to reverse.
• Teamwork Ease: We collaborate well adapt easily and are open to feedback. We convince or get convinced asking the same from everyone. If an initiative comes top-down we debate it until we fully buy-in then champion it to our teams.
• Fighting Complacency: We challenge the status quo and fight complacency with our whole hearts. Were vocal when something is going wrong seeing it as an opportunity for a better world.
• Having Fun: While our work is serious we trust our gut when we have a 10x motivation to try something new. We jump on opportunities for innovation involving as many people as possible.

Your first steps in Factorial

Youll start with a 2 weeks onboarding period where you will:

1. Read a lot: Learn about Factorial our product our team and our clients.
2. Learn a lot: Pair with each team member at least once to understand what they are working on.
3. Code a lot: Solve low-stake bug tickets or quick wins.
4. Fail a lot: We work with ephemeral development environments with almost zero configuration so you can start coding fast. And failing going back retrying We understand this is part of the path so we will encourage you to be brave!
5. Talk a lot: Be fully integrated into the teams rituals from day one.

After your onboarding your day-by-day work will look like the following:

• You will be a product engineer taking ownership of big initiatives and being interested in the outcome not just the output. About the outcome youll also work with your team members to establish goals and plan a quarterly roadmap putting special attention to the technical needs of our domain.
• A Senior Engineer at Factorial influences requirements definition and is autonomous in delivering a polished solution that matches those. You participate in the teams decision through Requests For Comments (RFCs) that you write yourself or read others.
• You will be involved in customer calls to learn about their pains & needs.
• You will review code daily and get feedback on your code at every pull request from all team members including juniors.
• You will learn from the entire team both on technical topics (performance architecture) and core skills in an environment driven by engineering quality. You will also mentor junior team members and help them learn from your experience.

Benefits

We care about people and offer many benefits for employees:

• High growth multicultural and friendly environment.
• Continuous training and learning based on your needs.
• Alans private health insurance.
• Healthy life with Gympass (Gyms pools outdoor classes).
• Save expenses with Cobee.
• Language classes with Yolk Academy.
• Get the most out of your salary with Payflow.

And when at the office...

• Breakfast in the office and organic fruit.
• Nora and Apetit discounts.
• Pet Friendly.

The hiring process

If you apply heres what to expect:

1. A first conversation with our Talent Acquisition Partner. It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level. We will also check our Engineering Rubrics (check them out they are open!) and the salary in your position.
2. A second conversation with the teams engineering manager. This is about making sure we can work together. Here you will have a conversation about the team their needs your profile and how can you complement it. Expect to have a mix of a human and technical conversation.
3. A tech interview with three Factorial engineers: thats a conversation about technology not an exam or a code review. Well ask you to send us a piece of code youve written recently and are happy with to use as a basis for the conversation. If you dont have anything well share some specifications for you to build but the focus will be on how you think not the lines you code.
4. One last coffee-chat with our CTO where you can get all the answers about Factorials culture business vision or anything else that interests you.
5. And thats it! Feel free to request any other conversation you want with team members or to address specific concerns at any time during the process.

The whole process is remote using videoconferencing tools!

About us

Factorial is an all-in-one HR Software fast-growing company founded in 2016. Our mission is to help SMEs automate HR workflows centralize peoples data and make better business decisions. Currently we serve thousands of customers in over 60 countries worldwide and across industries and we have built a diverse and multicultural team of over 900 people in our Barcelona Brazil Mexico and US offices.
Our Values

• We own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions not excuses.
• We learn and teach: Were dedicated to learning something new every day and above all sharing it.
• We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
• We grow fast: We act fast. We believe that the worst mistake is not learning from them.

Wanna learn more about us Check our website!