Intercom

Principal Engineer

Intercom
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4 days ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic engineering projects and initiatives within the R&D organization.
  • Build and contribute to both back-end and front-end systems across ideation, prototyping, design, and implementation.
  • Provide engineering leadership with assessments of project progress, risks, challenges, resource allocation, and prioritization.
  • Contribute to technical architecture and scalability, availability, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Collaborate with designers, product managers, researchers, data analysts, and technical leaders to deliver customer value.
  • Hire, coach, mentor, and support the career development of other engineers.
  • Drive technical standards and incremental delivery through continuous deployment and feature flagging.

Requirements

  • Significant demonstrated impact on products and/or engineering teams.
  • Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language such as Ruby, Python, or Perl.
  • Experience with distributed systems.
  • At least 2 years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team.
  • Experience collaborating with technical leaders, product teams, and designers.
  • A proven track record of delivering value to customers or users.
  • Experience building SaaS products is ideal.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, annual bonus, and equity.
  • Generous paid time off above statutory minimums.
  • Hybrid work arrangement with at least three days per week in the office.
  • MacBook provided as standard, with Windows available for certain roles when needed.
  • Regular compensation reviews and employee events.
  • Benefits and programs supporting health, wellbeing, family, time away, and financial futures, varying by location.

Tech Stack

PerlPythonRubyWindows
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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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