Senior/Staff Software Engineer - API&Markeplace

Hello!

At Factorial were looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join our API & Marketplace Team within the Platform Domain.

The Engineering team at large

At Factorial youll be part of a team of 150 product engineers. 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.

The Role

Our stack is mainly Ruby on Rails and React. We dont look to match the stack. On the contrary the experience with multiple languages and frameworks that brings perspective and a set of tools in the toolbelt. Besides we are continuously evolving the ecosystem of engineering adopting new architectures and paradigms and evolving current ones. You are expected to contribute to the next software architecture stage at Factorial.

This role is in a Platform team. This means you will be doing product twice addressing not only user needs but also designing the best tools for both internal and external developers. You will be building not only integrations but also facilitating developer partners to have the best possible experience building their own.

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 local development environments 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 Wellhub (Gyms pools outdoor classes).
• Save expenses with Cobee.
• Language classes with Preply.
• 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.

About us

Factorial is an innovative Business Management Software solution designed to streamline company processes for small and medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2016 our mission is to help companies automate workflows centralize people data and make better business decisions. With customers across over 60 countries worldwide weve built a diverse team thats driving change in the business management tech space. Join us as we continue our rapid growth journey!

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!

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 Live Engineering Challenge with two Factorial engineers: At Factorial were passionate about hiring engineers who can think clearly communicate well leverage the best tools and learn very this challenge were not looking for a finished product but for how you structure problems ask questions use technology and reason about solutions.
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!