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Senior Support Engineer

Spreedly

Spreedly

Customer Service
Durham, NC, USA · Remote
Posted on Nov 9, 2023
Spreedly is the world's leading Payments Orchestration solution. Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Backed by Spectrum Equity, with a $75M investment, Spreedly is experiencing rapid growth.
We now serve 600 customers globally. Many of these direct customers are platforms and marketplaces that have thousands of their merchants leveraging our payments platform. Our customers include industry leaders in digital goods, order ahead and delivery, online marketplaces, donation/giving platforms, event ticketing, and financial services.
Our employees help us execute against our vision through building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.
As a Senior Support Engineer, your contribution will be vital in ensuring that Spreedly's customers receive prompt and exceptional technical support. We are seeking someone who is enthusiastic about our product and committed to attaining expert-level proficiency in its functionalities, enabling this role to act as both a technical guide and internal advocate for our customers.
Your responsibilities in this role will include responding to inbound support requests, answering questions, troubleshooting issues, and researching solutions to help customers leverage our platform to the fullest. To ensure timely issue resolution, you will need to maintain strong communication and continuous collaboration across the Support team and other internal teams. Sharing unique knowledge and customer insights that may help enhance Spreedly’s products, services, and mission will also be key in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Resolve customer integration questions and issues via email support and video conferencing
  • Become an expert on the Spreedly API and related product offerings
  • Take ownership of escalated tickets and work to resolve
  • Apply proper troubleshooting, data gathering, and full research to customer issues while maintaining a keen sense of urgency with regards to customer impact
  • Foster team and customer education and self-service by creating, enhancing, and maintaining internal and external documentation
  • Assist new customers in the migration of their data to Spreedly
  • Assist other Support team members with consultations and ticket escalations
  • Develop and deliver training for other team members
  • Seek out and execute new ways to optimize and automate team processes and responsibilities
  • Track feature requests and product feedback, deeply understanding the customer use case, value, and impact
  • Provide early and proactive feedback on feature development, training, and documentation
  • Work cross-functionally with other Engineering teams to ensure timely resolutions
  • Continuously advocate for customers internally by discovering, analyzing, and communicating any gaps or friction in the customer experience
  • Participate in on-call technical rotations, as needed
  • Become a go-to resource for peers, other internal parties, and customers and advise on best solutions
  • Help assess customer impact of any issues or changes and use this information to effectively drive timely solutions
  • Assist the organization with process improvements and promote operational excellence
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external parties

Requirements

  • 4+ years of technical customer service experience, supporting both technical and non-technical customers
  • Experience supporting and testing REST APIs
  • You don't need to be a developer to be successful in this role, but you should be able to review and troubleshoot existing code. Experience with, or knowledge of, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and/or Ruby on Rails would be very helpful, as would a background in web or software development
  • Advanced technical troubleshooting skills with an eagerness to take a data-driven approach to researching and solving problems, creating documentation, and iterating based on what was learned
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong desire for collaboration within a team environment and the ability to show empathy to customers
  • Capacity to thrive and show ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with minimal supervision
  • Familiarity with support and project platforms such as Zendesk, Jira, GitHub
  • Well-versed in KPIs and positively influencing metrics within an organization
  • Leadership skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving, coaching others, and delivering training or knowledge transfers
  • Associate’s degree or an equivalent combination of experience and education

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + Equity
  • Outstanding Medical and Dental Insurance: Premiums are 100% company paid for employees and families
  • Note: We offer two PPO health insurance plans: A traditional copay and a high deductible with HSA. Spreedly contributes $1,200/$2,400 per year to the HSA for those choosing the high deductible plan
  • Life and long-term disability insurance
  • Optional Vision insurance and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
  • Matching 401k plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
  • Monthly digital lifestyle stipend ($150), new MacBook, and $200 accessory reimbursement
  • $3,000 annual Professional Development stipend and free LinkedIn Learning subscription
  • Flexible, remote friendly work environment
  • Quarterly visits to HQ in Durham, NC for remote employees
Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.
Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.
Unless otherwise stated, remote positions are open to candidates in the contiguous US only. We are not set up to support remote employees from CA, NY, or outside the contiguous US. At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the US and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in the US.
We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.