Principal Engineer

Fin; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary

Equity

Annual bonus

MacBooks provided

Job summary

Intercom, now part of Salesforce, invites Senior Principal Engineers to shape strategy, architecture and execution across back-end and front-end systems. You will mentor engineers, work with product managers, designers and data analysts to deliver scalable solutions for global customers.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years as tech lead, strong distributed systems experience, and a track record of delivering customer value in SaaS environments. Hybrid work model and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Built a SaaS product used globally.
• 2+ years as the primary technical leader for a team.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems.
• Experience collaborating with product, design and data analysts.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute key strategic engineering initiatives.
• Lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers.
• Partner with product managers and designers to deliver value to users.
• Hire and grow engineering talent.

Skills

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Ruby/Python

Git

Tools

Ruby

Python

Perl

Job description

Fin, now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.

Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What's the opportunity?

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.

Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering.

What will I be doing?

• 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.
• Build using the best tools in the industry. We invest heavily in AI‑powered developer tools that remove friction and help you focus on solving meaningful problems.
• Play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence

What skills do I need?

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual bonus and equity
• Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
• Generous paid time off above statutory minimum
• Hybrid working
• MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.
• Fun events for Intercomrades, friends, and family!

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Policies

Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier 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 Fin. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on 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.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. At Fin, we want to give people what they need to do the best work of their careers. Our benefits and programs are designed to support your health and wellbeing, your family, your time away from work, and your financial future. Offerings vary by location in line with local practices and requirements. Learn more about working at Fin and the benefits we offer at fin.ai/careers.

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