Customer Support Engineer at OneSignal | Powderkeg

Location: United States (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Operations

OneSignal is a YCombinator company that supports over 1M developers across our mobile and web push platforms and over 7,500 new developers sign up each week. OneSignal customers include Volkswagen, Verizon, Burger King, 7 Eleven, Zynga, Virgin Mobile, KFC, and many more. Join us in scaling the business!

OneSignal has a lot of the great tech startup qualities you'd expect, but we don't stop there. Our massive scale and small team, emphasis on healthy life balance and kindness in all our interactions, and focus on ownership and personal growth make OneSignal a uniquely great place to work.

We pride ourselves on being the best-in-class customer messaging and SaaS provider for large-scale websites and mobile apps and we continue to make drastic improvements to our service giving us huge advantages over our competition.Providing a delightful support experience for every customer (either large or small) is a key part of our ongoing success.

We believe support is more than simply answering questions -- it's also a way to better understand the needs of our clients and to find ways to make our service easier to use. The technical nature of the questions we receive and the opportunities to improve OneSignal's dashboard and SDKs make this a role that will give you the opportunity to learn and apply new technologies each day.

In a typical month, the Customer Support Engineer might:

  • Answering technical support questions via email messaging tools and chat
  • Helping customers set up the OneSignal mobile SDK including for Android, iOS, React Native, Ionic, Cordova, Flutter, Xamarin, Unity
  • Working with customers to troubleshoot and debug general and technical issues
  • Testing endpoints of the REST API
  • Evaluating crash logs and stack traces to help solve customer issues
  • Collaborating with SDK stakeholders to patch bugs and ship updates
  • Responding to OneSignal Wordpress and Github issues
  • Maintaining OneSignal’s knowledge base and create and maintain technical documentation and video tutorials for new products and features
  • Building and maintaining OneSignal’s example code and projects
  • Helping with Onesignal demos and customer onboarding
  • Be the voice of our customers, and work closely with OneSignal’s product and engineering teams to share customer feedback and make recommendations to improve the product
  • Helping to drive positive reviews on G2 and other review platforms
  • Training customers on product enablement to improve overall customer retention
  • Offer world-class support to both experienced developers and beginners

What you'll bring:

  • Have experience or demonstrable interest in technology and programming
  • Get excited about the opportunity to join a small but fast growing startup company
  • Enjoy working with customers via video calls, e-mail, and chat
  • Android and/or iOS experience with Java, Objective-C, Swift programming is preferred
  • Have patience and integrity working with customers from all over the world (~70% of our customers are international)
  • Strong interpersonal and customer support skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Those with experience from technical bootcamps are welcome to apply
  • Mobile experience or interest with SDKs is a plus

Qualities we look for:

  • Friendliness and empathy
  • Modesty
  • Ability to collaborate well on a team
  • Can deliver solutions independently
  • Love of learning

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination/harassment based on 'protected categories,' we also strive to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place in our workplace.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Customer Support Engineer
  • Company
    OneSignal
  • Location
    San Mateo, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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