• Contribute to our roadmaps and influence their direction. This is more than a technical role, you’ll be a creative product and technical contributor.
• 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. Projects are kept short and tightly scoped. Teams build a weekly cadence of releases.
• Ship a change to production on your first day and a significant public release in your first week. That “day one” change is automatically deployed to production along with 80 other deployments (on average) each weekday.
• Be proud of what you work on, obsess about the quality of the work you produce. Join us to do the best work of your career.
• Have regular opportunity and support for career growth. We are constantly growing and forming new teams. For those who are motivated to lead, we hugely bias internal promotions to Engineering Lead and Engineering Director roles.

REQUIREMENTS

We don’t need you to be familiar with any of these technologies to work with us. Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working).

Technology

The core Intercom product is a Ruby on Rails application with an Ember.js frontend. We use MySQL and MongoDB for most of our storage, though we’re starting to migrate to other services like Amazon’s DynamoDB.

We’re actively moving to a service-oriented architecture, with new components built using the most appropriate technology. So far that’s largely been in Java on Dropwizard, and recently using go.

Our iOS application and SDK are developed in Objective-C, while our Android application and SDK are Java. The web integration our customers use is built on Backbone.js. We have API and integration clients for Ruby, Java and PHP with Go and Node.js coming soon (Python and Perl are community supported at the moment).

Our infrastructure runs entirely within Amazon Web Services and we make use of many of their services (DynamoDB, SQS, etc.) We like to buy the best tools and services where available but will build our own when we need to — we use an in-house continuous deployment service and built our own lightweight project management tooling.

BENEFITS

We’re a pretty well treated bunch with a great list of benefits. We try keep our office open to friends and family — there’s always enough to go around at breakfast, lunch and dinner. We organise family events around Halloween and Christmas, where everyone’s invited. We’re making the most of our St. Stephen’s Green location by hosting community events in the evenings (let us know if your meet-up needs a space).

We don’t skimp on hardware or any of the tools you need to do your job well. Easy access to AWS infrastructure and services for prototyping and development too.

We also offer generous relocation assistance for people joining us from overseas.