Overview
Intercom is the AI Customer Service company on a mission to help businesses provide incredible customer experiences. Our AI agent Fin, the most advanced customer service AI agent on the market, lets businesses deliver always-on, impeccable customer service and transform their customer experiences. Fin can be combined with our Helpdesk to become the Intercom Customer Service Suite, which provides AI-enhanced support for more complex or high touch queries that require a human agent.
Founded in 2011 and trusted by nearly 30,000 global businesses, Intercom is setting the new standard for customer service. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and consistently deliver incredible value to our customers.
Opportunity
As a Staff Engineer, you will be a leader within the team and a strong contributor to 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 Engineering Manager to develop the team and to devise technical strategy. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering.
What will I be doing?
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
Qualifications
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.). It doesn’t need to be a language we use here; great people learn quickly and can introduce better ways of working
Experience with distributed systems
2+ years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team
Experience collaborating directly with product teams and designers, with a proven track record of delivering value to customers or users. Engineers at Intercom are pragmatists who work closely with 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
Lunch provided every weekday, with a variety of snacks and a fully stocked kitchen
Regular compensation reviews
Pension scheme with matched contributions up to 4%
Life, health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
Flexible paid time off
Paid maternity leave and six weeks paternity leave
Cycle-to-Work Scheme with secure bike storage
MacBooks standard; Windows available for certain roles when needed
Policies
Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easily and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three 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. Our policy is not to advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics in internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms and 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 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, 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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Additional
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
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