Hello!
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
- You are a team player: You are comfortable helping your teammates, sharing your knowledge, reviewing their code and asking for reviews of your own.
- You have a user-centric mindset: You know that the only reason we write code is to help our users to perform their tasks.
- You are a learner: you want to improve your skills not only in the engineering field but across any other areas.
- You are an owner: You like proposing new hypotheses and being responsible for building, deploying and validating them.
- You love understanding: Breaking down complex problems into basic and shareable elements.
- You are a polyglot developer: You have experience in several coding languages (especially for backend development), CI/CD tools and cloud technologies.
- You are a mentor: You love to share your experience and expertise to help others grow.
- You have a couple of years of experience working as a software engineer.
- 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
- Office-first in Barcelona & Madrid, with 20% remote flexibility
- A people-first, high-trust culture built on radical candor and ownership
- A multicultural team (40+ nationalities) building the next generation of business management software
About us
At Factorial, we’re building the leading business management software for companies of all sizes. Our platform centralizes key workflows across HR, finance, and operations, freeing teams from manual processes so they can focus on what really matters: leading, growing, and taking care of their people.With over 1,200 employees across 7 markets, we serve 700,000+ users and are one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS companies, backed by top-tier investors and proudly headquartered in Barcelona.We believe in bold goals, radical ownership, and inclusive collaboration. If you're excited to shape the future of business management technology, we’d love to meet you.
Our Values
- We own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions, not excuses.
- We learn and teach: We're dedicated to learning something new every day and, above all, share it.
- We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
- We grow fast: We act fast. We think that the worst mistake is not learning from them.
- We believe in diverse talent: We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strongly encourage people of diverse experiences and identities to apply.
- We believe in inclusion: We are committed to equal opportunities and actively promote workplace inclusion of people with disabilities. If you would like to learn more about our inclusive recruitment processes, you are welcome to indicate so optionally and we will share additional information with you.
Wanna learn more about us? Check our website!
Perks of being part of our team
We care about people and we also offer a lot of benefits for employees:
- High growth, multicultural and friendly environment
- Alan as private health insurance
- Healthy life with Wellhub (Gyms, pools, outdoor classes)
- Save expenses with Cobee
- Language classes
- Breakfast in the office and organic fruit
- Nora discounts
- Free caffeine and theine
- Pet Friendly
Hiring Process
- 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...
