Engineering Manager / Sr Engineering Manager – Back Office Team

Job title:

Engineering Manager / Sr Engineering Manager – Back Office Team

Company:

Factorial

Job description

Hello! At Factorial, we’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to help us tackle our domain’s 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 largeAt Factorial, we have a team of over 150 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. Our stack in **Ruby on Rails and React, since you’ll lead a new team we’ll need you to have previously worked with Ruby.**The RoleAs an **Engineering Manager of the BackOffice & Internal Tools team, you will be responsible for leading the development of your team while also being accountable for the health and growth of your product. The team will be in charge of our **BackOffice, the internal product used across the company that is key to manage our core operations and provide the best service to our end users.****About you

• You have managed people before and have experience guiding engineers to successful careers (ideally even above you!).
• You have actively participated in hiring processes, bringing top talent to the organization.
• You are comfortable cooperating with other teams and building the fundamentals of service.
• 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 have 5+ years of experience working as a full-stack developer or in a similar position.
• You have 3+ years of experience leading teams.
• You have previously worked with Ruby.
• 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.
• You can’t imagine yourself not writing code at all.

At Factorial we don’t evaluate you by years of experience but by your knowledge and skillsWe 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. For this position, the range we are offering is starting annual gross salary is **71,300 – 92,400€, depending on your seniority in leading and technical background, regardless of your location. For example in case of 71,300: This includes a base salary of 62,000€ and a variable pay of up to 9,300€ (paid proportional each quarter), depending on the company’s goals and your performance.****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 hire team members as needed, ensuring we bring in talented and good-hearted individuals.
• You will constantly think about how to improve your team and processes.
• You will engage in weekly 1:1s, focusing on the development and well-being of team members.
• You will engage with other engineering managers to coordinate initiatives that impact several teams.
• You will convince or get convinced. (You will heard this motto a lot). **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 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

**About usFactorial is an all-in-one HR Software fast-growing company founded in 2016. Our mission is to help SMEs automate HR workflows, centralize people data, and make better business decisions. Currently, we serve thousands of customers in over 60 countries worldwide and across industries, and we have built a diverse and multicultural team of over 900 people in our Barcelona, Brazil, Mexico, and US offices.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. Wanna learn more about us? Check our website!

**The hiring processIf you apply, here’s what to expect: * A first conversation with our People Business Partner. It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level.

• 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.
• A tech interview with three Factorial engineers: This will be a conversation about technology, not an exam or code review. We’ll ask you to send us a piece of code you’ve written recently and are happy with, to use as a basis for the conversation. If you don’t have anything, we’ll share some specifications for you to build, but the focus will be on how you think, not the exact code.
• 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! #LI-RF1

Factorial

Expected salary

€71300 – 92400 per year

Location

Barcelona

Job date

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:39:12 GMT

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