SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BARCELONA

Senior Software Engineer
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. It s 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
You ll start with a 2 weeks onboarding period, where you will:

- Read a lot: Learn about Factorial, our product, our team, and our clients.

- Learn a lot: Pair with each team member at least once, to understand what they are working on.

- Code a lot: Solve low-stake bug tickets or quick wins.

- 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!

- Talk a lot: Be fully integrated into the team s 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, you ll 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 team s 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.

Ruby on Rails, react

Ruby on Rails, react