Senior Software Support Engineer - Fully Remote - work from home

Job Description

Senior Support Engineers resolve or triage more complex client-report issues pertaining to SMG applications and tools. They possess strong technical skills in several SMG products and have access to back-end tools for more advanced troubleshooting. While still client-facing, Senior Support agents will have significant interaction with technical peers throughout the company. This role is ideal for candidates with significant customer and software application support experience looking to advance their technical skills.

Why work at SMG?

SMG is a leading experience management (XM) provider, serving restaurants, retailers, and other location-centric consumer businesses by changing how brands act on customer + employee insights. With a rich 30-year history, SMG is uniquely pairing an enterprise software platform with professional services to help brands generate new revenue, grow existing revenue, reduce detractors, and drive operational efficiencies.

We offer our talent -

• Work hard, have fun environment - We work hard to deliver a fulfilling, exciting workplace environment for each SMG employee. Our teams are composed of smart, talented, curious people who love a good challenge.
• Ample opportunities to learn and grow.
• Fully Remote, Contract or Fulltime position
• Unlimited PTO
• Diverse, experienced, friendly team which will welcome you, support you and challenge you.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and create an inclusive work environment in which all our colleagues experience belonging, have their unique needs respected and met, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and feel fully engaged to contribute to the company’s success.

As a Senior Software Support Engineer at SMG, this is what you will do:

• Handle escalated client requests through tickets and occasional calls, with a goal to escalate no more than 20% of tickets.
• Reproduce complex client issues that can be on the software configuration level, application, database, or code itself.
• Analyze logs and create DEBUG statements to determine application flow and failure points.
• Identify product defects, and/or gather needed data for engineering teams to resolve.
• Follow-up with clients on issues that require a dedicated troubleshooting or data collection session.
• Work with SMEs to gather knowledge for updating technical documentation in company’s knowledge base.
• Provide recommendations to engineering teams on how to deflect high-volume issues, update tools to provide better data for analysis, and/or consider technical customer feedback i.e. voice of the customer.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for proprietary applications.
• Partner with internal technical peers to create and update troubleshooting documentation and scripts.

You are a perfect match for the role if you have:

• 3+ yrs in a technical support role focused on providing root cause, technical solutions (configuration changes, code changes, no-code integrations).
• 2+ yrs in a customer facing support role.
• Experience supporting applications or large-scale systems preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Proficiency reading and troubleshooting various coding languages, but mainly C# & SQL.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting Web based applications.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting services and APIs.
• Experience learning & maintaining complex application configurations.
• Experience providing 24x7 application support.
• Dedicated internet access (30Mb/s download / 20 Mb/s upload).