Engineering Manager - Employee Data team

Hello!

At Factorial were looking for a handson Engineering Manager to help us take our People Employee Data team to the next level and who likes to make a real impact by working close to the business.

Ready to be part of the challenge

Youll be part of a team thats at the heart of our companys operations. Our main mission is to create an incredibly reliable system for managing employee data. We understand just how crucial processes like payroll and time calculation are and thats why were laserfocused on ensuring our data is rocksolid. By building a solid foundation for managing employee information were aiming to make sure that everything runs smoothly across the board. This isnt just about accuracy and efficiency; its about making sure our employees can rely on us to get things right every single time.

The Engineering team at large

At Factorial we have a team of 150 very talented fullstack developers. We look for smart people who are curious proactive and have good soft/communication skills.

We are not looking for a long list of skills and technologies. Our stack is Ruby on Rails for the backend and React/Reactnative for the clients but its not mandatory to be proficient in those to be considered (most of the team came with other areas of expertise which is very enriching). We believe that someone who has good aptitudes and is hungry for learning is what works best.

If youre looking for new challenges in a peoplefirst company keep reading!

The Role:

As an Engineer Manager in the People Employee Data team you will be responsible for hiring and coaching the engineers to achieve the teams goals.

About you:

• You have managed people before and have experience guiding engineers into a successful careers.
• You have participated actively in hiring processes bringing top talent to the organization.
• You are comfortable cooperating with other teams and building the fundamentals of service.
• Whenever you disagree with a peer you engage in a Socratic exchange prioritizing finding a solution over winning arguments.
• 5 years of experience working as a fullstack developer or a similar position.
• 3 years of experience leading teams.
• You have a deep understanding of APIs (REST graphQL and similar) and you are able to create integrations with other backend systems.
• You think consistency performance quality and scalability are more than buzzwords and have a deep real meaning that needs to translate to products and services.

At Factorial we dont evaluate you by the years of experience you have we evaluate your knowledge and skills.

How We have a Career Path with a rubric framework where we define what is expected for each experience level and skill. This framework allows you to know at which level youre right now and what you need to keep growing. As we love transparency our Career Path includes the salaries for each level and we share it during the first interview to make sure were aligned.

For this level position the start annual gross salary is 60000 regardless of your location. This includes a base salary of 51000 and a variable pay of up to 9000 paid monthly depending on the companys goals.

What will work be like

• You will start the onboarding with a buddy that will guide you through some noncritical tasks to get used to the codebase.
• After two weeks you will get the first initiative that you will do pairing with a colleague.
• You will learn about the business the whole customer journey and start working with the team to draft a roadmap.
• You will participate in weekly meetings with your team to discuss what to work on next and propose new ideas.
• You will participate in reviewing the RFCs your team produces giving feedback and proposing alternatives in order to achieve the teams goals.
• You will hire members of the team ensuring that we bring talented and goodhearted humans.
• You will constantly think how to make your team better and improve processes.
• You will engage in weekly 1:1s focusing on the development of the members of the team and their wellbeing.
• You will engage with other engineering managers to coordinate initiatives that impact several teams.

Perks of being part of our team

• Every engineer has a yearly learning budget of 1.000
• Flexible working hours: Within range of the typical European timezones (GMT / 4) you own your schedule!
• Online language classes available with Yolk Academy
• Private health insurance with Alan
• Save on meal/transport with Cobee/)
• Save on gym membership and more with Gympass
• Get the most out of your salary with Payflow
• Bike discounts with Kleta

And when at the office:

• Syra Coffee and Apeteat discounts.
• Breakfast organic fruit caffeine and theine
• Petfriendly office.

Is this you! Come rock the world with us! We #betonpeople

About Factorial HR

Factorial is a company management software fastgrowing startup founded in 2016. Our mission is to help companies automate HR workflows centralise people data and make better business decisions. We currently serve thousands of customers in over 60 countries all over the world and across industries. Weve built a super diverse and multicultural team of over 700 people in Barcelona Brazil Mexico and EEUU offices in addition to the 150 engineering team that is spread across the globe.

Do you want to know more about us Weve won awards and received outstanding customer feedback since day one. Weve recently raised 120M in our series C funding bringing us to unicorn valuation with top international venture capital firms (Atomico Tiger CRV Creandum K Fund to name a few).

The hiring process

If you apply heres what to expect:

• A first conversation with Raquel our People Business Partner. It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level.
• A second conversation with the teams engineering director. Similarly to the first one this is about making sure you are a fit and can work together.
• A tech interview with 3 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 youre 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 exact code.
• A last conversation with the VP of Engineering.
• And thats it! Feel free to request any other conversation you want with team members or to address specific concerns at any time in the process.

The whole process is remote using videoconferencing tools!

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