Technical Support Engineer - remote

Airship
Posted 2 years ago  • US West Coast

You are a Technical Support Engineer involved in resolving complex customer support issues while delivering amazing customer support experiences to highly technical customers. You are committed to improving processes and solving problems with the ability to read and write code. You thrive at working in a fast-paced environment. If you’re tenacious, good humored, inquisitive, diplomatic and helpful, you’ll succeed in this role.

(Please include a cover letter with your application about why you are interested in Airship and specifically our open Technical Support Engineer position)

Responsibilities

  • Provide world-class support by taking ownership for customer issues from initial contact to resolution including troubleshooting the issue, determining root cause and ensuring that the customer understands the resolution
  • Partner with the Engineering and Development teams to resolve customer issues and assist customers during the implementation of our products and services which includes reading, analyzing and writing code
  • Write documentation, knowledge base articles, and tutorials to improve the customer experience of Airship products and services
  • Participate in the QA process of current and new products/services
  • Contribute to the development of our support policies and procedures
  • Do whatever it takes to provide outstanding support
  • Able to participate in on-call rotation and have weekend day component to weekly schedule

Skills and Experience

  • At least 3 years in a Technical Support role or equivalent technical customer interactions
  • Must be comfortable reading and writing code in at least one language (especially Python, Java, and/or Objective-C)
  • Ability to navigate Mac OS X and leverage the command line
  • Comfortable with mobile platforms like iOS and Android
  • Can embrace ambiguity and apply their experience of utilizing tools and resources to come to a resolution
  • Able to establish subject matter expertise in new technologies
  • Able to coach and support teammates on complex technical issues
  • Able to quickly build trusting relationships with customers
  • Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical customers
  • Able to work in a team environment while working independently

About Airship

Marketers, mobile product owners and developers at thousands of the world’s most admired companies rely on Airship’s App Experience Platform to create and adapt powerful app experiences that accelerate onboarding, user understanding for next-level personalization and monetization to capture more business value for everyone involved.

With the dawn of apps, Airship powered the first commercial messages and then expanded its data-led approach to all re-engagement channels (mobile wallet, SMS, email), app UX experimentation, proactive in-app conversations and now rich in-app experiences that business users can create and adapt on their own — with no ongoing developer support or app update required.

Learn more about Airship here: Airship Newsroom