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Principal Engineer


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  • Intercom
  • London
  • 8 months ago
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Intercom is an AI-first customer service platform that helps businesses deliver better, faster, more personalized support.

Intercom is bringing AI-first Customer Service to the world, dramatically improving experiences for customers, support agents, and managers alike.Modern, fast, and easy-to-use, Intercom’s complete AI-first Customer Service Platform enhances the customer experience, improves operational efficiency, and scales with our customers’ business every step of the way. Intercom is also the most innovative and fastest improving product on the market. Shipping over 200 product improvements every year, Intercom is bringing AI features to market before anyone else.

What's the opportunity?

Principal Engineers at Intercom have the opportunity to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives.You will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership.

Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering

What will I be doing?

As an experienced engineer you will:

Have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects.

Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership to help guide resource allocation and prioritisation.

Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all our customers’ customers. We’re growing and so are they.

Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases. Even our biggest technical achievements roll out piece by piece, feature flagged out of sight.

Contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design and implementation. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.

Play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers

Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence

What skills do I need?

Ideally, you’ve built an exciting SaaS product in your previous roles and loved the satisfaction that comes with knowing that people around the world are using something you’ve created

Significant, demonstrated impact that your work has had on the product and/or the teams

Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, Ruby, Python, Perl etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)

You will have experience with Distributed systems

2+ years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team

Experience collaborating directly with technical leaders, product teams and designers, and a proven track record of delivering value to customers or users. Engineers at Intercom are pragmatists who work closely with others on cross-disciplinary teams and have a strong sense of product strategy.

Benefits

We are a well treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us! :)

Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up

We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen

Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!

Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents

Open vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need it

Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones

MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done

Policies 

Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least two days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Intercom. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.

Intercom values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Intercom will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

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