About Payfone

Payfone is an award-winning, rapidly growing digital identity management company headquartered in New York city, serving banking. insurance and healthcare industries. Learn more at www.payfone.com and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/payfone

As we continue to scale our company, we are looking for people who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smarts, but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.

Payfone has big plans; we’re excited and optimistic about the future. If this sounds like a career for you – come check us out.

As a Tier 1 Support Engineer, You Will:

• Provide world class technical troubleshooting, integration support, and monitoring to a wide range of Fortune 100 customers
• Work congruently on onboarding efforts as well as coordinate with the local technical operations and international support
• This work also involves working with cross functional teams across Payfone, its partners and its clients so excellent communication is required
• This position requires an understanding of various monitoring and troubleshooting solutions, SaaS technologies, incident process flows and escalations

What You Are Accountable For

• Consistently resolve and close customer issues by providing excellent customer service.
• Have the ability to learn complex workflow processes
• Acquire an understanding of Payfone API internal functionality, configuration, and monitoring
• Have the tenacity to leave no stone unturned and think ‘outside of the box’ in order to resolve customer needs
• Apply disciplined, process driven methodologies to drive to technical resolution of issues
• Manage, categorize, and escalate inbound requests to the appropriate resource for resolution
• Communicate promptly to customers regarding the status of their tickets
• Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion and leadership
• Exhibit a strong passion for learning our products and markets through in-house and external training
• Other duties as assigned

What We Require

• 1 to 3 years of experience in:
• > Tier 1 Support or Systems Engineer position
• > Splunk, Kibana, Sumo, Datadog, or equivalent
• > Similar role for a tech startup
• Experience or work exposure to software APIs, HTTP/S, JSON, XML, PostMan
• Experience working daily in ticketing systems such as JIRA, FreshDesk, ZenDesk, ServiceNow
• Ability to thrive working with highly technical internal and customer team members to drive to problem resolution
• Self-starter with the ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to keep pace and absorb rapidly evolving technical solutions being developed and deployed in both domestic and international locations
• Minimum High School Degree or equivalent; College or University Degree a plus

This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions.

Payfone is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics.