VGS

Technical Support Engineer

VGS

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: CaliforniaColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $50,000 - $90,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Manage long-term integration projects with our customers, ranging from Fintech startups to Fortune 100 clients, to understand and resolve their integration and operational requests.
  • Act as the primary coordinator between internal VGS development teams and the customer's technical staff, ensuring alignment and that no tasks or dependencies are forgotten.
  • Maintain up-to-date project trackers, spreadsheets, and task boards to accurately reflect current integration statuses for both internal stakeholders and customers.
  • Triage customer issues, perform deep-dive debugging (reviewing logs, reproducing issues via cURL/Postman), and resolve or find workarounds.
  • Create and update internal and public-facing documentation based on findings from request investigations and project milestones.
  • Communicate via email, chat, or video conferencing with customers to provide "Very Good" service experiences.
  • Prepare and deliver customer training, including developing training materials if they do not already exist.
  • Submit and comment on bug reports and feature requests based on customer interactions.
  • Engage with the development team to create new feature requests, escalate bugs, solve problems, or obtain missing information.
  • Understand and deliver on team metrics and KPIs, prioritizing ticket quality, fast resolution times, and high focus on customer satisfaction.
  • Meet or exceed SLA times consistently.
  • Reliably respond to on-call emergencies and participate in on-call support rotation as needed

Requirements

  • Foundation - at least 5 years of relevant work experience in Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Technical Account Management, or Technical Project Management.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math, or relevant experience.
  • Project Management - Proven experience working with customers on long-term projects, keeping detailed status reports up to date, and confidently guiding external teams through complex processes.
  • Context - Deep understanding of HTTP protocol, RESTful APIs, proxies, and solid software troubleshooting skills, and the ability to understand our platform end-to-end.
  • Payment Domain Knowledge - Familiarity with the payments ecosystem (Acquirers, Issuers, Gateways) and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, SOC2) is a strong plus.
  • Communication - Upper-intermediate or higher English communication, written and spoken, including very clear and effective communication of technical content and project statuses.
  • Coding - experience with reading and debugging code in 1 or more programming languages (Python, Go, Java, or similar) is a strong plus.
  • Self-Starter - highly motivated to take on tasks, taking initiative to solve problems and help others, proactively communicating findings, ideas, and potential project blockers.
  • Interactive - enjoys talking to customers and team members alike, not hesitating to reach out and establish contact to drive projects forward.
  • Passionate - thrive on building or finding successful solutions and contributing to our constantly changing and improving process and delivery.
  • Commitment - dedication to self-improvement, improving the quality of the team for others, and therein contributing to the success of VGS.
Benefits
  • Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
  • Competitive health benefits
  • VGS stock options
  • 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
  • Global parental leave program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Home Internet reimbursement
  • New hire home office set-up allowance
  • Professional learning reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
HTTP protocolRESTful APIssoftware troubleshootingPythonGoJavacURLPostmanproject managementbug reporting
Soft Skills
communicationself-starterinitiativecustomer engagementproblem-solvingteam collaborationadaptabilitycustomer satisfaction focustraining developmentattention to detail
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in TechnologyBachelor's degree in EngineeringBachelor's degree in MathPCI-DSS complianceSOC2 compliance