Technical Support Engineer Job at Moniepoint

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Technical Support Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for an Application Technical Support Engineer to provide enterprise-level assistance to our production applications and services. You will be responsible for the stability, integrity, and operation of our production applications by supporting, monitoring and driving optimizations while also providing root cause analysis with recommendations for improvements.
• You will research, diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve customer issues in an accurate and timely manner.

What you’ll get to do

• Provide tier two application support to production systems and identify any issue in production.
• Taking ownership of customer issues reported and seeing problems through to resolution.
• Monitor performance metrics for various production systems, identify root cause for all technical issues and work with the engineering team to resolve them.
• Manage team ticket queue and resolve in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain accurate technical, software operations and support related documentation.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to fix bugs.
• Participate in regular rotations for weekday and weekend on-call coverage, providing emergency support to customers, or working with the SRE team to coordinate incident communications.
• Work with software vendors to have application issues fixed, both short term and long term (root cause).
• Act as a technical resource during other projects as required.

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have

• B.Sc Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting software applications.
• Experience in a support or other service-oriented customer facing role.
• Experience in managing cases throughout the entire support lifecycle from initial customer inquiry to triage and reproduction, writing bug reports for hand off to the development team, and case resolution.
• Proven work experience as a Technical Support Engineer or similar role.
• Experience being on-call and can jump into a complex situation and make sense of and communicate clearly to stakeholders what's going on.
• Basic Understanding of OOP concepts and other programming concepts.
• In depth knowledge of SQL databases particularly MYSQL.
• Familiarity with basic network concepts and tools.
• Experience troubleshooting using stack traces and log file.
• Familiarity with Git and continuous integration, delivery, and deployment principles
• Experience interacting with APIs and troubleshooting related requests.
• Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS environments.

What we can offer you

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.