Founding Engineer

Factorial; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Private health insurance

Wellhub gym

Cobee

Language classes

Breakfast in the office

Descripción de la vacante

Factorial is launching a brand-new spinoff inside Factorial, recruiting a Founding Engineer to shape the early product and team in Barcelona. You’ll own core initiatives, move fast, and balance shipping AI features with robust reliability and user focus.

You’ll work in a small, scrappy team with day-one runway, collaborating across backend in Ruby on Rails and frontend in React or TypeScript while designing scalable cloud-native architectures. This is the chance to build from scratch.

Formación

• 4+ years in software engineering
• Shipped AI-powered features or experiments
• Ability to explain technical decisions in English to non-technical stakeholders

Responsabilidades

• Own big initiatives as Founding Engineer
• Participate in customer calls to learn pains and needs
• Review code daily and provide feedback across the team
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team learning

Conocimientos

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

AI features

Software engineering

English comms

Descripción del empleo

Hello!

Do you want to help us redefine how AI powers the future of Business Management software, not as an add-on, but as a core part of how people work, decide and grow?

We’re looking for engineers who:

• Treat AI as central to their craft, not a feature to bolt on later
• Want to build and ship, not debate and document
• Care about whether the thing they built actually worked — not what their title says.

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

We're building a new startup inside Factorial, starting from scratch, with real backing and a clear target: 0 to 100 million by 2030 It's ambitious, and that's the point.

The focus is on rethinking how companies manage workflows, org charts, policies, and analytics, the operational core of what Factorial does. But this isn't an internal project. It's a spinoff with its own identity, its own pace, and its own team.

The advantage of doing this inside Factorial? We're not starting cold. We have 17,000+ existing customers, a dedicated GTM team, and the infrastructure to move fast. You'll be joining at day zero, but with a real runway.

In terms of what we're building, the tech matters less than you'd think. We care about your ability to move fast, make good decisions with incomplete information, and build things people actually want to use. That said, strong Ruby on Rails experience on the backend and solid React or TypeScript on the frontend will go a long way.

If you've ever wanted to work in a small, scrappy team with the energy of an early-stage startup but without the typical early-stage uncertainty, this is that opportunity.

What are we looking for?

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and genuinely enjoy the early stage of building something from scratch.
• You've shipped AI-powered features and know that evaluating them in production is the hard part, not building them. You think about reliability and user friction before model complexity.
• You're comfortable reviewing agentic workflows and have opinions about LLM architecture tradeoffs. Not just theoretical ones.
• You treat AI features as hypotheses. Build, deploy, measure, adjust. You own that whole loop, not just the build part.
• You can break down non-deterministic outputs into something the rest of the team can reason about and act on.
• You’re comfortable working with Ruby on Rails & React and understand how to integrate AI models into scalable, cloud-native environments.
• You help teammates who are transitioning from deterministic to probabilistic thinking, not by lecturing, but by working through it together.
• 4+ years in software engineering, with some track record (or serious curiosity) around shipping AI features.
• You can explain a complex technical decision in English to someone who doesn't write code clearly, without condescension.

What You’ll be Doing?

• 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 (Barcelona 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 schedule.

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.

At Factorial we don't evaluate you by years of experience but by your knowledge and skills.

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.

Our Hiring Process

• Intro Call → Chat with our Talent Partner about your journey and goals.
• Hiring Manager Interview → Deep dive into your product mindset, teamwork, and problem-solving.
• Live Challenge → A collaborative technical exercise based on real-life problems.
• Final Coffee Chat → A relaxed conversation with our CTO & VP of Engineering to explore our vision, culture, and your growth.

The whole process is remote, using videoconferencing tools!

About Factorial

At Factorial, we’re building the leading AI Business Management Software for companies of all sizes. Our platform centralizes key workflows across HR, Finance, Talent, Operations, and IT, freeing teams from manual processes so they can focus on what really matters: leading, growing, and taking care of their people.With over 1,500 employees across Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. We are one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS companies, proudly headquartered in Barcelona. If you're excited to shape the future of business management technology, we’d love to meet you.

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.

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.

Perks of being part of Factorial

• 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
• Food discounts with Nora
• Pet Friendly
• Much more that we'll spill during the interview process!