At Factorial, we're looking for a Principal Engineer to help us tackle our challenges and ensure our product development reaches the next level. We want someone who enjoys making a real impact by working closely with the business.
The Engineering team at large:
At Factorial, we have a team of over 200 Full-stack developers. We look for curious, proactive people with good soft and communication skills. The last one is the key in a distributed company.
We don’t focus on a long list of skills and technologies. While our stack is Ruby on Rails for the backend and React/React Native for the clients, proficiency in these is not mandatory. We believe that good aptitudes and a hunger for learning work best.
The Role:
As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for defining technological roadmaps that anticipate opportunities and create new strategic possibilities for Factorial while making meaningful contributions to multi-year organizational objectives collaborating with leadership to craft them.
About you:
- You have created org-wide tech roadmaps and have experience guiding engineers to successfully turn them into a reality.
- You are comfortable cooperating with other teams and building the fundamentals of service.
- You have 10+ years of experience working as a full-stack developer or in a similar position.
- You have 3+ years of experience in tech leadership roles.
- You have a deep understanding of APIs (REST, GraphQL, and similar) and can create integrations with other backend systems.
- You believe that consistency, performance, quality, and scalability are more than buzzwords and have a deep real meaning that needs to translate into products and services.
- When you disagree with a peer, you engage in a Socratic exchange, prioritizing finding a solution over winning arguments. You convince or get convinced.
- You can't imagine yourself not writing code at all.
We use our Career Path with a rubric framework where we define what is expected for each experience level and skill. This framework allows you to know your current level and what you need to keep growing. We love transparency, so our Career Path includes the salaries for each level, which we share during the first interview to ensure alignment.
What will work be like?
- You will start onboarding with a buddy who will guide you through some non-critical tasks to get used to the codebase.
- 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 to achieve the team's goals.
- You will constantly think about how to improve our solutions, tools and processes.
- You will engage with other engineering and product leaders to coordinate initiatives that impact several teams.
- You will convince or get convinced. (You will hear this motto a lot).
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 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
- Breakfast in the office and organic fruit
- Nora and Apetit discounts
- Pet Friendly
Factorial is an innovative Business Management Software solution designed to streamline company processes for small and medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2016, our mission is to help companies automate workflows, centralize people data, and make better business decisions. With customers across over 60 countries worldwide, we've built a diverse team that's driving change in the business management tech space. Join us as we continue our rapid growth journey!
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, sharing it.
- We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
- We grow fast: We act fast. We believe that the worst mistake is not learning from them.
The hiring process
If you apply, here’s what to expect:
1. A first conversation with our People Business Partner. It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level.
2. A second conversation with the team’s Engineering Director. Similarly to the first one, this is about making sure you are a fit and can work together.
3. 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.
4. One last coffee-chat with our CTO, where you can get all the answers about Factorial’s culture, business vision, or anything else that interests you.
5. And that’s it! Feel free to request any other conversations 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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