{"id":2142681,"url":"https://alion.io/job/factorial-engineering-manager","title":"Engineering Manager","company":{"id":53702,"name":"Factorial","domain":"factorialhr.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/factorial","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Factorial","truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":66,"open_postings":125,"ghost_share":0.56,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["A Coruña, Spain"],"countries":["ES"],"hiring_countries":["ES"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":51000,"max_usd":142000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1902},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":true},{"name":"Ruby","optional":true},{"name":"Ruby on Rails","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-15T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-09","last_verified_at":"2026-10-11T17:50:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":88,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":88},"description":"Hello!\nAt Factorial, we're looking for an Engineering Manager who wants to get their hands dirty - someone who leads teams but stays close to the work, understands the domain deeply, and cares about shipping things that actually matter.\nWe're at an interesting moment. AI isn't a feature we're adding to our product - it's changing how the product works. That means rethinking how we design and build software from the ground up, moving from deterministic systems to AI-powered workflows that help real businesses run better every day. It's genuinely hard, and it's genuinely exciting.\nIf you're someone who gets energy from working closely with the business, growing engineers around you, and using AI not as a buzzword but as a real tool to build better products faster - we'd love to meet you.\nReady to be part of the challenge?\nAbout the team\nOur Engineering team is the engine behind Factorial, crafting the tech that makes HR simple, fast, and reliable for thousands of companies. If you love solving hard problems and want to build something that truly matters, come build it with us.\nWe're a team of 200+ Product Engineers building Business Management solution that actually works for the people using it. Our core stack is Ruby on Rails and React but the interesting work right now is what we're building on top of that: agentic workflows, LLM-integrated features, systems that behave probabilistically rather than deterministically.\nWe believe that strong fundamentals, adaptability, and the ability to leverage modern tools, including AI are what truly matter.\nWhat are we looking for?\nYou bring both leadership experience and a modern, AI-native engineering mindset.\nYou've managed people before and helped engineers grow, ideally beyond your own level.\n\nYou've been part of hiring processes and have a track record of bringing strong people into your teams.\n\nYou're comfortable working across teams and contributing to shared platform and service foundations.\n\nYou engage in honest, Socratic discussions focused on finding the best solution, not winning the argument.\n\nExperience and Technical Depth\n5+ years as a Full-stack engineer or similar role.\n\n3+ years leading engineering teams.\n\nStrong experience designing APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc.) and building integrations.\n\nYou understand scalability, performance, and quality as real constraints and have dealt with them in production.\n\nBusiness Mindset\nBeing a great Engineering Manager at Factorial means caring about more than the code. You understand the business context behind what you're building and can connect technical decisions to real outcomes for customers and the company.\nYou're curious about how the business works and use that understanding to make better technical calls.\n\nYou push your team to understand the problem deeply before jumping to solutions.\n\nYou think in terms of customer value, not just technical deliverables.\n\nYou're comfortable talking to stakeholders, asking hard questions, and challenging assumptions when something doesn't add up.\n\nYou know when to ship something imperfect and when to slow down and get it right.\n\nAI-Native Engineering and Product Mindset\nWe expect Engineering Managers to lead teams building AI-powered products, not just use AI tools on the side.\nYou treat AI as a core part of modern software engineering, not something you bolt on at the end.\n\nYou've built or contributed to AI-powered features or workflows that made it to production.\n\nYou know what good AI development looks like in practice: defining behaviour and success criteria before you build, measuring output quality, grounding systems in real data, designing workflows that can take safe and auditable actions, and knowing when to keep humans in the loop.\n\nYou use AI-assisted tools to move faster in your day-to-day, whether that's coding, testing, debugging, or documentation.\n\nYou can help your team review, validate, and safely ship AI-generated code and behaviours.\n\nYou understand the real limitations of LLM-based systems: hallucinations, evaluation challenges, data sensitivity.\n\nYou create space for experimentation and fast learning loops within your team.\n\nYou spot opportunities where AI can genuinely simplify something complex and create real value for users.\n\nWhat You’ll Be Doing?\nYou'll start with a buddy who guides you through some non-critical tasks to get comfortable with the codebase.\n\nYou'll learn the business, the full customer journey, and work with the team to draft a roadmap.\n\nYou'll join weekly team meetings to discuss priorities and bring new ideas to the table.\n\nYou'll review the RFCs your team produces, give feedback, and push for the best way to get things done.\n\nYou'll hire as the team grows, making sure we bring in people who are both talented and good-hearted.\n\nYou'll constantly look for ways to improve how the team works.\n\nYou'll run weekly 1:1s focused on the development and well-being of each person on your team.\n\nYou'll work with other engineering managers to coordinate initiatives that cut across teams.\n\nYou'll help lead the shift to AI-native product development, not by mandating tools, but by setting the example, asking the right questions, and creating the space for your team to experiment and learn.\n\nYou'll convince or get convinced. You'll hear that a lot.\n\nHow We Work (Barcelona, Madrid or A Coruña Office)\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nThis balance helps us stay agile, creative, and closely connected, while giving everyone the space to do their best work.\nAt Factorial we don't evaluate you by years of experience but by your knowledge and skills.\nWe 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.\nOur Hiring Process\nIntro Call → Chat with our Talent Partner about your journey and goals.\n\nHiring Manager Interview → Deep dive into your product mindset, teamwork, and problem-solving.\n\nLive Challenge → A collaborative technical exercise based on real-life problems.\n\nFinal Coffee Chat → A relaxed conversation with our CTO & VP of Engineering to explore our vision, culture, and your growth.\n\nAnd 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!\nAbout Factorial\nFactorial is the AI for Business that knows companies, connects how work happens across the business, and turns that context into action.\nFounded in Barcelona in 2016, we now have +1,700 employees serving more than 16,000 companies across 112 countries.\nFactorial started with a simple idea: companies were spending too much time managing processes and not enough time doing the work they were hired to do: their best work.\nBut as companies grow, work gets more disconnected. More people, more tools, more information, and more time spent connecting the dots. Generic AI can answer questions, but it doesn’t know your company. Every time, you have to give it the context.\nFactorial is different. Because it’s inside the company, it already knows how it works, including its people, processes, policies, and data. So you can ask it to do real work, from screening candidates and managing expenses to answering questions and creating reports.\nAI isn’t the goal. Giving people back their time is.\nWhen work changes, so do we.\nWe believe in diverse talent: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strongly encourage people of diverse experiences and identities to apply.\nWe 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.\nOur Values\nWe own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions, not excuses.\n\nWe learn and teach: We're dedicated to learning something new every day and, above all, share it.\n\nWe partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.\n\nWe grow fast: We act fast. 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Check our website!\nPerks of being part of Factorial\nHigh growth, multicultural and friendly environment\n\nCompetitive ESOP plan\n\nAlan as private health insurance\n\nHealthy life with Wellhub (Gyms, pools, outdoor classes)\n\nSave expenses with Cobee\n\nLanguage classes\n\nBreakfast in the office and organic fruit\n\nFood discounts with Nora\n\nPet Friendly\n\nMuch more that we'll spill during the interview process!","description_format":"text","description_chars":9295,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":3,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Pet friendly"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Professional Services","Software","Payroll Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T03:51:17Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.416,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":87,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/factorial-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/factorial-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T19:45:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4988,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":53702},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=53702"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffactorial-engineering-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffactorial-engineering-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffactorial-engineering-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/factorial-engineering-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffactorial-engineering-manager"}]}