Intercom

Principal Engineer

Intercom
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over 1 year ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead the definition and execution of key strategic engineering initiatives autonomously.
  • Build and contribute to backend and frontend systems across ideation, prototyping, design, and implementation.
  • Provide engineering leadership with assessments of project progress, risks, and challenges.
  • Contribute to technical architecture and scalable system design.
  • Drive standards for technical quality, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Hire, mentor, and support the career development of other engineers.
  • Partner with Group Engineering Managers and cross-disciplinary teams on technical strategy and product delivery.

Requirements

  • Significant demonstrated impact on products or engineering teams.
  • Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language such as Ruby, Python, or Perl.
  • Experience with distributed systems.
  • At least two years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team.
  • Experience collaborating with technical leaders, product teams, and designers, with a track record of delivering value to customers or users.
  • Experience building SaaS products is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity are offered, with compensation reviews.
  • Lunch is provided every weekday, along with snacks and a stocked kitchen.
  • Pension scheme with matching contributions up to 4%.
  • Life assurance and comprehensive health and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible paid time off, paid maternity leave, and six weeks of paternity leave.
  • MacBooks are standard, with alternative equipment available as needed.
  • Hybrid work policy requiring employees to be in the office at least two days per week.

Tech Stack

PerlPythonRuby

Categories

Intercom

About Intercom

1,001-5,000 employees

We’re Intercom — the AI customer service company helping businesses deliver incredible customer experiences at scale. Our platform combines Fin, the #1 AI Agent for customer service, with our next-generation Helpdesk, a modern workspace that gives support teams the power, speed and intelligence they need.

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