Principal Engineer, Intercom
Plus equity
2+ days a week in office
The modern customer communications platform
Open for applications
The modern customer communications platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Plus equity
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Intercom's mission is to make internet business personal.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
If you've ever seen a chat pop up on a business' website, it was probably provided by Intercom. Though ubiquitous now, it used to be a major challenge for companies to communicate swiftly with their customers. Intercom's Messenger allows a company to instantly reach out with human or automated support, improving customer service and greatly increasing conversion rates for sales.
While the Messenger is its most visible product, Intercom provides a service similar to Salesforce, as an advanced customer relationship management system. However, Intercom doesn't see Salesforce as a major rival, as Intercom specialises in the online market while Salesforce is more suited for traditional retail. Intercom is used by more than 25,000 businesses including Amazon, Meta and Atlassian, and reaches an estimated 600 million end users monthly.
Intercom has primarily served the US and Irish markets but has been expanding its presence globally in recent years. Despite having a commanding market position, it is continuing to develop its product, most recently delivering a major functionality upgrade to its Messenger software, greatly increasing its ability to carry out ticketed support requests.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2018
$125m
SERIES D
Apr 2016
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $240.8m
Company benefits
- We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
- Generous public transport allowance for commuting
- Wellness programme that allows you to expense gym and other sports activities up to £90 quarterly
- Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
- Open vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
- Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work
- MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done
Company values
- We're optimistic & positive
- We obsess about our customers' success
- We're confident, yet humble
- We think big and start small
- We go further together
- Make every day count
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Eoghan McCabe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of Contrast and Exceptional. Is also the Chairman of Intercom.
Des Traynor
(Co-founder & CSO)Previously worked in software development and is an expert in User Experience (has lectured on the topic and was UX Lead at Contrast)
Ciaran Lee
(Co-founder)Previously Lead Engineer at RateMyArea.com and CTO of Exceptional. Was Intercom's CTO until 2021.
People progressing
Joined as a Manager in Product Analytics. Made it to VP of Research & Data Science after 6 years and 3 promotions
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