Technical Support Engineer

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.

Today, Plaid Support ensures our customers' applications can help their consumers live their best financial lives by ensuring our products continue to operate as expected. We investigate the root cause of integration issues, quantify their scope and impact, and when we can’t fix them ourselves, we work with our Growth and Engineering teams to reach a solution. In this role, you will interface with customers via Zendesk tickets, troubleshoot customer issues using internal tools and documentation and escalate to Engineering or Partnership teams for resolution and work on projects with other TSE’s to improve internal and external processes.

Responsibilities

• Respond to 10-12 customer tickets per day via Zendesk, meeting quality standards
• Troubleshoot customer issues using internal tools and documentation and escalate to Engineering or Partnership teams for resolution
• Work on projects with other TSE’s to improve internal and external processes
• Contribute to brainstorming and project execution (tooling, documentation, process improvements)
• Assist GTM teams with customer escalations
• Collaborate with EPD teams on issue resolution

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a customer-facing role
• 6+ months of experience working with REST APIs, SQL, CSS, HTML and a coding language (Javascript or Python)
• Knowledge of ticketing systems and tools (e.g. Zendesk, Jira), and data visualizations (e.g. Mode)
• Preferred: 6+ months of experience supporting technical projects and/or process improvement
• Genuine interest and passion for Support
• Commitment to providing a world-class customer experience
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Self-starter mentality and ability to work independently
• Effective time management and ability to balance multiple priorities