FARO Software Engineering/User eXperience Team Admission

Welcome to the FARO SWE/UX applicant website. First off, congratulations for your interest in this position! On this website, you will find all the information you need to get acquainted with the Software Engineer positions we have open on the SWE/UX team in Portugal, and then (we hope!) apply to one of them.

The Company

Here's a quick rundown of our company: FARO is listed on NASDAQ - and was recently quoted by Forbes magazine as being the 18th fastest growing technology company in the US, alongside big names such as Google and Red Hat.

The Team

Our team in Portugal is currently composed of six members, and interfaces with the Metrology team in Florida, USA. It is responsible for the User Experience, Workflow and Framework areas of the products developed by the Software Engineering division. We are looking to build a high-performance, highly-motivated team to cope with the challenges that lie ahead. These are exciting times at FARO, and we want you to be a part of it!

Of course, we believe that to ultimately achieve the best results, we must not only ensure an alignment between the team's needs and what the candidate has to offer to the team – experience, knowledge, accountability and outstanding performance –, but also an alignment between what the team and the company offers – in terms of working environment, responsibility, salary, etc. –, and what the candidate expects from a job at FARO. To that end, we want to provide you with an idea of what it is like to work at the FARO SWE/UX team.

Life at FARO SWE/UX

Once you are admitted to the job, you will sign a 1-year contract with FARO comprising of a 3-month probation period. Don't be scared just yet! We do this because first, we want to retain only the best talent and second, because we believe that if you are confident in your ability to perform the job with outstanding quality and performance, you will not be thrown off by this challenge. It should be noted that it is common that once we spot top talent, the new team member is signed permanently after only a few weeks on the job. It is that evident!

On the job itself, you will be working from a very pleasant and modern office setting in Gaia, overlooking the Douro River.

You will be given a great degree of freedom within your assigned project, with ample room to make your creative and innovative ideas a reality in products that will be used by thousands of people at the world's most recognizable brands, such as Porsche, Boeing, Airbus, among many others. Our corporate culture is one of openness, and we firmly believe that in order to cultivate learning, people must never be afraid of asking even the most basic question, or questioning the most basic assumption.

Our team strives to make the best use of the latest technologies from Microsoft, so you are guaranteed to be keeping up-to-date with the best that the software industry has to offer.

What's next?

If you feel this is the perfect work environment for you, and are positive you can make a big contribution to the team's creativity and performance, we urge you to go ahead and apply for an available position.

Once you pass this test and prove to be among the best candidates, you will be invited to an in-person interview, where you may be asked to perform an additional test with different questions.

Good luck!

The SWE/UX Team.