Technical Support Engineer (EST)

In a Technical Support role for our Customer Success team, you are responsible for supporting our customers and delivering a world-class support experience. You work closely with store owners to answer questions, troubleshoot and resolve issues via live chat, email and occasional phone calls.

Please note - this role is aligned to our EST support team. We are looking for candidates who are able to work from 8am-5pm EST.

What you’ll do

• Use your technical expertise and customer service skills to resolve questions and issues for our online merchants
• Communicate clearly in writing to both technical and non-technical people
• Use our “live chat first” approach to clearly answer questions, triage and gather context as needed, moving to email for any deeper investigations when necessary.
• Occasional outbound phone calls with customers when the issue requires quick context gathering
• Identify patterns, recommend improvements, filter out unimportant issues, troubleshoot and escalate bugs to engineering
• Contribute to the ongoing development of documentation and best practices
• Be a Recharge expert for our merchants to help them grow by knowing the product well and staying up to date with the new releases
• Collaborate with teammates in our swarm support model to resolve issues in a timely manner
• Contribute to achieving individual, team, and company goals
• Live by and champion our values: Accountability, Collaboration, Iteration and Details

What you’ll bring

• Proficiency with a ticketing technology platform: i.e. HelpScout, Zendesk preferred
• Resourcefulness: you'll figure out what needs to be done, and you find ways to make it happen
• A passion for problem solving and the curiosity and humility to ask for assistance
• A sense of urgency and ability to prioritize issues based on severity, with a satisfaction from going above and beyond to provide solutions
• Ability to work remotely and desire to make an impact at an industry leader in subscription payments
• Ability to identify trends and take a proactive approach when reporting potential incidents
• A strong and responsive communicator, with excellent customer service and English fluency (written and spoken)
• A ‘winning as a team’ attitude and a polite, patient, caring, calm and professional demeanor
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript (knowledge of other programming languages a plus)
• Use Splunk, SQL, Looker, other tools
• Ability and desire to work flexible shifts
• 2+ years of experience in technical customer support at a SaaS company, or similar