Staff Software Engineer Developer Experience

Job description

Hello!

Would you love to improve the way companies take care of their people, their most valuable asset?

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer / DevOps to join our Developer Experience team at Factorial.

Developer Experience Team The Developer Experience Team's primary goal is to increase Factorial’s quality, performance and scalability by constantly improving the ways in which we build our product.

We focus on honing our tools, upkeeping foundational elements and promoting best practices in continuous collaboration with the rest of the teams.

Our mission is to equip our product builders with robust tools to deliver with quality, confidence, and efficiency and to collaborate with teams to identify and improve common software patterns, encourage best practices, remove obstacles, complete unfinished migrations and reduce tech debt.

The role As a Senior Engineer at Factorial, you'll be part of a team of 200+ 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.

You'll 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.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails for the backend and React / React Native for the clients .

But, hey! Don't let unfamiliarity with these specific technologies hold you back! If you're someone eager to learn, you have navigated through diverse technical challenges throughout your career, and have a hunger for building new solutions that help cultivate highly satisfied, productive, employees, then we want to talk to you.

We are looking for profiles that have solid experience managing large-scale application deployments on the cloud, ideally including :

Defining, implementing and helping teams to adopt new abstractions

5+ years of experience developing software products

Good knowledge of CI / CD services

Having broad experience in Cloud deployments .

Ideally possessing previous experience in working in DX teams .

Great communication skills.

How We Work (Barcelona or Madrid Office) At Factorial, we believe the best products are built when people come together, in person to collaborate, challenge ideas, and move fast.

That’s why our Engineering Teams follows an office-first, flexible approach .

We work on-site several days a week , using that time to connect, align, and innovate as a team.

However, we also understand the importance of focus and flexibility, so we support remote work when it makes sense - whether for deep work, personal needs, or just a change of scenery.

This balance helps us stay agile, creative, and closely connected, while giving everyone the space to do their best work.

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 : We're 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 aren't afraid to debate ideas.

If we can't 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 don't 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.

We're 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 a lot :

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

Fail a lot :

Talk a lot :

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 Product 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.

Alan's 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.

If you apply, here’s what to expect : 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.

A second conversation with the team’s 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.

A Live Engineering Challenge with two Factorial engineers : At Factorial, we’re passionate about hiring engineers who can think clearly, communicate well, leverage the best tools, and learn very fast.

In this challenge, we’re not looking for a finished product, but for how you structure problems, ask questions, use technology, and reason about solutions.

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Required Skill Profession

Informática Y Tecnología