Senior Product Engineer - AI Platform

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping high-quality products, preferably backend.
• You can demonstrate significant impact in the work that you have done.
• You take pride in having strong technical fundamentals; you love learning and are willing to work hard to invest in your development.
• Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, Python, Ruby etc.)
• Strong willingness to fight for good outcomes
• Ability to deep dive into any part of the tech stack.
• Bias towards progress over perfection.
• Excited about progress in the AI space.

Nice to Haves

• 1+ year of experience building ML-powered products. You’ll be supported by, and learn from teammates with deep ML experience.
• Built or used ML platforms before.
• Deep understanding of some distributed systems (e.g. database, caches, queues, streams).
• Statistics fundamentals.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build the systems that power Intercom’s flagship AI products. This usually means working in our ML Python tech stack, but at times also means working across the product on our Rails app too.
• Work alongside our ML engineers and ML Scientists to bring proof-of-concept code to production; ensuring it’s robust and scalable for real-world use.
• Partner with ML engineers and ML scientists to build the underlying platform that helps them shape the best AI-powered product experience for our customers.
• Contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, and implementation and testing.
• Play an active role in the hiring, mentoring, and career development of other engineers.
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence within the group and across Intercom.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
• We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
• Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
• Pension scheme & match up to 4%
• Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
• If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
• MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.