Entry-level Technical Support Engineer

We're growing rapidly, and seeking a passionate professional to join our Client Technical Support team in Vancouver as a Technical Support Engineer. 
Please note that this role is office-based.

The Role

As part of our Technical Support Engineering Team, you'll help our customers resolve complex technical problems, providing proactive guidance, and adding value through the use of Glia’s technologies. You’ll deliver recommendations to make our customer’s integrations secure, scalable, and seamless. An Entry-Level Technical Support Engineer is effective, capable of managing demanding workloads, and excels at prioritization and evaluation of situational urgency.

The salary range is 40000 - 70000 CAD annually. 

What you'll do

A regular day in the life of a Technical Support Engineer at Glia consists of resolving technical inquiries with our customers and partners, helping them achieve their goals through Glia’s Digital Customer Service platform while maintaining high standards.

An Entry-Level Technical Support Engineer at Glia:

• Works with our customers' and partners' developers, architects, business analysts, and support personnel to set up complex technical integrations.
• Collaborates with the Glia Product and Engineering teams using JIRA tickets, to report reproducible bugs and Slack
• Provides support to our clients by conducting effective troubleshooting on bugs and defects raised via our Service Desk or virtual channels.
• Helps our customers to understand the finer points of Glia’s capabilities and influences them to implement best practices.
• Interacts, collaborates, and networks with Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success in search of solutions
• Be ready to work in a fast-paced environment!

Tech you will be working with

• Jira, QuickSight, Salesforce.
• Zoom for internal and external communications
• Web Technologies including REST APIs, WebRTC, Web Sockets
• Mobile technologies including Swift, Java, Kotlin
• Telephony and media streaming technologies

• Must be located in Vancouver, BC, and willing to work from the office.
• Strong customer empathy. Desire to deliver positive, delightful customer experiences by identifying their problems and guiding them through complex technical solutions.
• Excellent reading, listening, and writing skills in English
• Good knowledge of RESTful technology, previous experience with APIs, and the ability to understand and troubleshoot issues with cloud solutions.
• A firm understanding of the technology stacks common to the Web ecosystem.
• High competency in communicating complex issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to professionally and diplomatically address customer concerns and provide concise feedback.
• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Bonus

• Skilled in troubleshooting network connectivity issues, with an understanding of TCP/UDP, and basics of SSL/TLS. Understanding of WebRTC and other web technologies.
• Experience with communications/telecommunications technology. 
• Broad capabilities to troubleshoot server-side code (C#, Java, Node.js, Ruby, or PHP) and client-side code  (JavaScript, Android, iOS

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Professional development support  (trainings, courses, conferences, books, etc)
• Access to all the latest tools and equipment you’ll need 
• Sports compensation, reimbursement for therapy, counseling sessions
• Team events: annual employee awards, internal hackathons, and a dozen cool events from cooking to the Glia olympic games :)
• Generous referral bonuses 
• Diversity: 25 countries represented