LEARN, CODE,
AND BE VALUED
Grow professionally and be treated with fairness and respect
Work Life
Enhanced
Work Life
Enhanced
When we are at work, we are dedicated to delivering quality software products to our clients, are generous in our support of each other, and have a valued voice in shaping the future of the company. We appreciate the effort our employees put in every day and actively manage the workload and client expectations to ensure the overwhelming majority of work is thoughtfully planned and happens within normal business hours.
We respect each other’s time and understand that we need to unwind, recover, and come back to work with renewed energy and perspective. What happens outside the office is just as important as what happens inside, which is why First Factory encourages the use of flex time, work-from-home days, and other family-friendly policies. We work hard to offer quality benefits that support our mental and physical well-being, hone our professional skills, and allow us to build stronger bonds with our teammates.
Open Positions
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is always looking for the best software developers, if you are eager to work with a client on a creative and innovative team, this is your opportunity.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Proven experience working with ASP.NET, VB.NET and C#
Strong comprehension of the Software Development Life Cycle
Hands-on experience working with Entity Framework, LINQ and MVC
Hands-on experience working with FrontEnd Frameworks and Libraries, specifically React.
Familiarity with WPF, WCF, and Web API
Proficiency with SQL Database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
Knowledge of Web Components such as MVC architecture, Azure App Services, and others
Experience working with applications life cycle
Experience working in an Agile environment
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is looking for a Java Fullstack Developer ( Java + React ) eager to work with a commercial and luxury real estate client in an innovative and detail-oriented environment with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Requirements
Extensive technical knowledge in Java 8 and higher versions
Experience using Spring Framework & Hibernate
Hands-on experience with React is a must.
Proficiency with JavaScript and ES6
Hands-on experience working with Spark, Hadoop, and HDFS
Proficiency with Dependency Management using Maven
Knowledge of testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or TestNG
Familiarity with JSON Serialization using Jackson
Experience with RESTful APIs
Proper understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
Previous experience working with Agile methodologies
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is looking for Python+Django Developers eager to work with a client in the healthcare area, in a detailed oriented environment with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.
First Factory might be the place for you if:
You’re enthusiastic about software development and emerging technologies
You’re a voracious learner who is always looking to get better and improve your skills for career development and growth
You enjoy helping others succeed and helping them identify resources to grow
You’re flexible and can adapt to changing needs while still producing quality work
You’re highly collaborative in an environment that is more start-up than a big company
You demonstrate advanced English proficiency and excellent communication skills
Requirements
3+ years of experience in Python and Django development
Deep understanding of Django fundamentals including forms, REST framework, models/ORM, storages, compressor, templates, migrations, and unit tests
Good understanding of version control and experience with git
Familiarity with containerization
Security and computational awareness
MVC, OOP, DRY, and Design pattern adeptness
Understanding databases and CRUD
Debugging skills using an IDE(PyCharm) or pdb/ipdb
Preferred Technical Skills:
Python 3.8+
Django 3.2+
PostgreSQL 13+ and writing complex queries in SQL
ETL experience
Experience using PyCharm
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is looking for a Golang Developer to join our team.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Hands-on experience working with GoLang, Go, and Java
Proficiency implementing microservices
Experience working with SQL and No-SQL Databases
Understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with CI/CD systems and cloud tools like AWS or GCP
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here
Description
We are looking for a qualified Database developer to design stable and reliable databases according to our Client's needs. You will be responsible for developing, testing, improving, and maintaining new and existing databases to help users retrieve data effectively.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Experience working with Linux & Python is preferred
Hands-on experience working with Big Query is preferred
Previous experience in GPC is preferred, but experience with Azure or AWS and willingness to learn GPC can work.
Experience as a DBA or Data Engineer optimizing workflows
Strong comprehensive database creation and maintenance
Proficiency in working with database queries, data ingestion, transformation, and delivery with large datasets (TerraBytes)
Experience in the automation of processes
Experience working in an Agile environment
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is looking for an established DevOps Engineer interested in supporting multiple efforts to improve product quality and delivery through automation and integration in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Requirements:
Hands-on experience working with AWS or Azure
Strong experience building & deploying services on Kubernetes
Solid understanding of CI/CD systems
Strong knowledge and experience using AWS/Azure infrastructure and pipelines
Experience monitoring tools like Splunk and Python
Nice to have:
Experience with Istio
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Description
First Factory seeks a passionate Product Owner to help us achieve our internal and external product development goals while inspiring teams to deliver results.
If you are self-motivated, performance and quality-driven, skilled in empathy-based mentoring, like to work independently, have extended experience working with executive stakeholders, and can manage a roadmap and prioritize a backlog for several applications, this is the role for you.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate for the Product Owner position will be comfortably versed in the Software Development Lifecycle, has demonstrated experience in employee management, and is looking to take ownership and leadership of the entire product development process. We're looking for exemplary attention to detail and a commitment to working with honesty and integrity above all else.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develops, owns, and executes product roadmaps, working with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align to strategic goals
- Manage the relationship with stakeholders and end-users of the applications, anticipating and fulfilling their needs.
- Manage the product backlog and prioritize based on requirements, strategy, and business objectives.
- Drive the development of new features throughout the entire SDLC
- Monitor and evaluate product progress at each stage of the process
- Develop mitigation strategies for problem areas and escalate to key stakeholders
- Ensure that project documentation is created and is maintained
- Liaise with the product team and end-user to deliver updates
- Provide leadership to the development teams to meet coding standards, estimation targets, and client expectations
- Conduct informal and formal feedback sessions for team members on their path to reaching career goals
Requirements
- 3 years of experience as a Product Owner in Software Development Environments
- Experience being the main point of contact for stakeholders and managers
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Exceptional communication skills – written, oral, and presentation skills
- Able to build consensus with staff at all levels of the organization
- Employee or peer management experience is required
- Ability to work with multiple projects and stakeholders
- Ability to think strategically, conceptually as well as analytical
Some of our benefits:
- Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
First Factory proudly offers free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
- Time off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
- Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Learn about our culture and more benefits here.
Description
First Factory is constantly growing and is looking for Power BI Developers to join our team.
About First Factory:
We are a software development company with over two decades of experience, boasting a dynamic team of 200+ professionals actively engaged in diverse projects across various industries. We invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to thrive and embrace fresh challenges.
Requirements
Familiarity with agile scrum methodology including estimation using story points
Experience in developing reports in Power BI
Experience with relational databases, tables & indexes.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure.
Familiarity with data warehousing and BI concepts and tools (Star schemas, Power BI).
Familiarity with data-modeling concepts, normalization and denormalization.
Experience with creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Familiarity with writing, executing and optimizing SQL.
Familiarity with continuous integration
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to provide clarity and conciseness in written formats.
Ability to effectively manage change and priorities.
Some of our benefits:
Work From Home
We believe in hybrid work. While the office is open five days per week, most employees enjoy working predominantly from home.
Medical & Dental Insurance
First Factory is proud to offer free private medical and dental insurance for our Costa Rican team members.
Time Off
Enjoy your time away from work. Our vacation policy grants extra PTO after 2 years of employment. Our team never misses a national holiday and has their birthday off.
Special events are important for you; take time off to attend your graduation, weddings, and more.
Continuous Learning
We want you in for the long term. We hire individuals passionate about learning and offer many tools for professional development and growth. We provide a $500 educational reimbursement so you can reach your learning and professional goals.
Learn about our culture and more benefits hereKeylor
Senior Software Engineer
First Factory is a company that cares about its employees and looks for new ideas, activities, benefits, and incentives to keep us comfortable, happy, and motivated. Everyone is treated with respect, and the company always listens to our specific needs and likes. At First Factory, we have a stable job with great clients and great teammates, and we have the opportunity to grow and learn as much as we can.
Chiara
Project Analyst
Our work environment, the people, and workplace practices help create this vibrant, positive, and infectious culture that makes First Factory so distinctive. First Factory involves and empowers employees by listening to their input, involving them in moving the organization forward, and giving them opportunities to lead initiatives, collaborate with one another, participate in decision-making, and make a meaningful difference at work. Plus, work/life balance is constantly encouraged by management and leadership.
Marce
Technical Lead - Tier 2
My favorite thing about working here is that we can choose our career path and are supported in acquiring the skills needed and being assigned a client that suits those skills. Working with U.S. clients has been an amazing experience, not only because it has helped to improve my English but also because the people are exceptional; I can say that I have made good friends along the way. We have a highly collaborative and inclusive environment and consistently stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies.
Greivin
Senior Software Engineer
My favorite part of First Factory is that our opinions are always considered as important. I feel we have a voice in the company, and that's super cool. The culture is great. The people I work with are more than just coworkers, they are friends.
We support each other, and we celebrate success as a team; I love that collaboration spirit.
Freddy
Technical Lead - Tier 1
First Factory actively works on providing a healthy work culture. This is a company where you can feel included. It started as a small business, and even as it has grown in employees and clients, it still maintains the same level of engagement with its employees. It's a place where you feel comfortable working and growing as a professional. Through open communication, I was able to regularly share my thoughts and expectations, and in turn, First Factory helped identify areas of growth and challenges so I could meet my career goals.
Juan
Senior Software Engineer
I believe what makes First Factory unique is that the company focuses on our growth as an engineer and gives us all the tools and support we need. First Factory is a great place to work, with amazing projects and clients with different technologies. There are so many talented people to collaborate with and learn from. There is flexibility and balance with our personal life and plenty of opportunities to grow.
Esteban
Software Engineer
First Factory is my home and my family. I love my experience working here. I started as an entry-level developer and have been able to grow as a software engineer. I have worked on awesome projects with clients worldwide, experienced new cultures, increased my knowledge on a wide variety of technologies, and shared this experience with incredible colleagues who have become lifelong friends.