Intercom

Staff Engineer - Web Platform

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London, United KingdomStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the architecture of Fin’s web platform.
  • Define long-term technical strategy focused on scalability, performance, developer productivity, observability, and reliability.
  • Lead the design and implementation of event tracking, attribution, funnel reporting, and A/B testing infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with marketing, design, analytics, data science, infrastructure, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers and provide guidance on architecture, data modeling, system design, reliability, and engineering practices.
  • Set standards for technical excellence, maintainability, code quality, and operational readiness.
  • Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Contribute hands-on to the codebase and help unblock key projects.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience in a high-scale, growth-focused web environment.
  • Track record of technical leadership and influencing direction across multiple teams or departments.
  • Deep expertise in Next.js and the React ecosystem.
  • Experience with headless CMS platforms such as Contentful or Sanity, including content modeling, migration, and multi-site architecture.
  • Experience with Terraform, AWS, CloudFront, S3, and Vercel.
  • Experience designing or operating experimentation infrastructure, including A/B testing frameworks, event instrumentation, attribution systems, and tools such as Eppo.
  • Strong understanding of web analytics and data instrumentation, including event tracking SDKs and Google Tag Manager or similar tools.
  • Comfort supporting full-stack codebases and understanding frontend architecture.
  • Experience operating in continuous delivery environments with incremental, high-quality shipping.
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across a team or organization.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working policy with at least three days per week in the office.
  • Benefits and programs supporting health and wellbeing, family, time away from work, and financial wellbeing, varying by location.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity and an open, accepting workplace culture.

Tech Stack

AWSNext.jsReactTerraformVercel

Categories

FrontendGrowth Engineering
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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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