Founding Senior Software Engineer

Salary

salary45,000€ - 60,500

Skills

Location

Languages

Fluent EnglishFluent Spanish

Job Description

🌟 Join us as a Founding Engineer in a brand-new Factorial spinoff!

We’re building a completely new startup inside Factorial. We’re on a mission to rethink how companies manage workflows, org charts, policies, and analytics, the core of what defines Factorial.

This new spinoff comes with a bold ambition: growing from 0 to 10 million in under a year. Yes, it's an extremely ambitious target… and that’s exactly why we’re looking for people who get excited by challenges of this scale!

The good news? We’re not starting from scratch. With +15,000 existing customers, we have a massive opportunity for immediate upselling, supported by a dedicated GTM team.

You’ll be joining from day 0, in an environment where the tech stack matters far less than your ability to build fast, adapt quickly, and shape something entirely new.

Expect a different pace than the rest of Factorial: fast, high-energy, full of things to create, fix, and define. If you thrive in creative chaos, love building from the ground up, and enjoy the vibe of small, scrappy startups more than corporate settings, you’re going to feel right at home. Factorial is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build the next generation of internal IT tools for thousands of businesses worldwide.

We're particularly interested in candidates with strong experience in Ruby on Rails for the backend. On the frontend, we're looking for solid skills in React, JavaScript, or TypeScript. But bear in mind that we’re not looking for a long list of skills and technologies. What matters the most is your excitement to build things from scratch!

💻 About the IT Management Domain

You’ll join the newly formed IT Management domain, where we’re creating a platform to manage onboarding, permissions, support, and equipment, so new employees are productive from day one. If you’re excited about shaping a new product area, owning features end-to-end, and working in a people-first company with a strong engineering culture, this role is for you.

Our mission in the IT Management Domain is building this new product in Factorial, including multiples moving pieces (inventory management, support ticketing, MDM, IdP, integrated onboarding, etc.), so employees are productive as soon as they receive the equipment and complete the onboarding process.

The Engineering team at large 🙌🏼

At Factorial, we have a team of +200 very talented Engineers. We look for smart people who are curious, proactive and have great communication skills.

At Factorial, we follow an AI-first development approach to design and ship products faster and more reliably. We build using spec-driven development, defining clear behaviours, constraints, and success criteria upfront, and implement reusable AI skills and agentic workflows that safely automate actions while keeping humans in control of critical decisions. To ensure reliability and continuous improvement, we use RAG systems and robust evaluation frameworks (Evals) that ground AI outputs in trusted company data and measure quality through automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations.

🎯Your profile

  1. You are a team player: You are comfortable helping your teammates, sharing your knowledge, reviewing their code and asking for reviews of your own.
  2. You have a user-centric mindset: You know that the only reason we write code is to help our users to perform their tasks.
  3. You are a learner: you want to improve your skills not only in the engineering field but across any other areas.
  4. You are an owner: You like proposing new hypotheses and being responsible for building, deploying and validating them.
  5. You love understanding: Breaking down complex problems into basic and shareable elements.
  6. You are a polyglot developer: You have experience in several coding languages (especially for backend development), CI/CD tools and cloud technologies.
  7. You are a mentor: You love to share your experience and expertise to help others grow.
  8. You have a couple of years of experience working as a software engineer.
  9. You are comfortable communicating in English.

At Factorial we don't evaluate you by the years of experience you have, we evaluate your knowledge, skills and engagement. 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 you're 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 we're aligned.

For this senior-level position, the annual gross salary is 60,500€ regardless of your location. This includes a base salary of 55,000€ and a variable pay of up to 5,500€ annually (paid quarterly), depending on the company's goals.

You will be a Founding 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.

You will be involved in customer calls to learn about their pains & needs.

You will review code daily and get feedback on your own 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..

How We Work 🏢

  1. Office-first in Barcelona & Madrid, with 20% remote flexibility
  2. A people-first, high-trust culture built on radical candor and ownership
  3. A multicultural team (40+ nationalities) building the next generation of business management software

Hiring Process

  1. Talent Acquisition Partner Interview
  2. Team’s Engineering Manager.
  3. Live Engineering Challenge with two Factorial engineers
  4. Coffee-chat with our CTO
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Factorial

Factorial HR was founded in 2016 in sunny Barcelona, Spain. Since then, we’ve onboarded over 3,000 clients in over 60 countries all over the world. To help encourage our growth, we’ve closed over $110 Million in funding, including a round of $80 Million from Tiger Global in September of 2021. Our super talented team of over 600 people has helped us win notable awards such as LinkedIn Top Start-Ups for 2020 and 2021. The growth has been a wild ride and we’re not slowing down any time soon!

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Factorial team (2021)
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About the team

600

employees

30

avg. age

24

nationalities

50%

man

50%

women

Benefits and perks

  • +Ticket kindergarden
  • +Ticket transport
  • workFromHome

    Work from home

  • trainingBudget

    Training budget

  • flexible

    Flexible schedule

  • food

    Food & drinks

  • lessons

    Language lessons

  • stocks

    Stocks options

Location

C/ Àlaba 61, Barcelona, Spain