Principal Engineer

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Intercom in Berlin is seeking a Principal Engineer to define and execute core strategic initiatives. You will work autonomously, lead key projects within the R&D organization, and collaborate with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts to shape the future of our AI-powered platform.

This role blends hands-on development with architecture leadership, mentoring other engineers, and guiding technical direction as we scale.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with SaaS product development.
• 2+ years as the primary technical leader for a team.
• Distributed systems experience.
• Proficiency in Ruby, Python or Perl and ability to learn new languages quickly.

Aufgaben

• Lead strategic projects within the R&D organization and drive execution.
• Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership.
• Contribute to technical architecture as we scale services for many customers.
• Engage in hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring and career development.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Ruby

Python

Perl

SaaS product experience

Jobbeschreibung

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company 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 for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.

Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.

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?

As an experienced engineer you will:

• 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
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