Junior Developer Support Engineer
About The Position
At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined. In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens. The Junior Developer Support Engineer is a critical role at Algolia. We’re on the front-lines and are often the first team customers contact when they need help with our products or services. We're looking for a Developer Support Engineer in Eastern or Central time zones to assist our technical users with implementing Algolia in a variety of web and mobile development technical stacks. This could mean helping a developer trying to build the next big thing in their garage, or Fortune 500 companies focused on providing a world-class experience to their millions of users. As a Developer Support Engineer, you will partner with the customer success, product, and engineering teams to find the best solutions for our customers.. We have a hands-on culture, and expect you to roll up your sleeves and get to work solving difficult problems that stand in the way of our customers’ success.
Requirements
- Ability to work Eastern or Central Standard Time
- Strong desire to help people solve problems with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a broad audience
- Experience with web development and/or REST APIs
- Experience in technical customer support, supporting SaaS enterprise software ideally
- Working knowledge of development languages such as JavaScript, Java, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, or Python.
- Ability to handle and prioritize a portfolio of tickets at various stages of resolution
- Excellent spoken and written English skills
- Ability to work in an on-call rotation
Nice To Haves
- Basic familiarity with iOS & Android platforms
- Experience supporting open-source projects & their GitHub communities
- Experience with Shopify, Magento
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
Responsibilities
- Handling technical requests via web and email support channels.
- Conducting professional and empathetic conversations with customers to gather information, troubleshoot, and resolve their technical obstacles.
- Submitting bug reports to the Engineering team for problems needing attention.
- Partnering with Product Teams and Engineering to develop subject matter expertise and serve as a product expert to the rest of the support team.
- Contributing to internal and external knowledge bases.
- Participating in internal projects to improve processes and tools.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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