Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Support Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering – Service Management

The Role

• We are seeking to employ a Product Support Engineer to join our team and provide exceptional support for our growing customer base.
• As a Product Support Engineer, you will serve as the frontline for providing technical assistance and resolving issues related to our financial software products.
• You will primarily troubleshoot and resolve errors, act quickly to analyze available data and find the root cause of issues.
• You will be expected to develop automations to resolve problems or escalate problems along to other engineering team members and provide users with regular progress updates.
• The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of technical support processes, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering excellent customer service.

Responsibilities
What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like:

• Conduct daily routine monitoring, operation and maintenance of all products in production in the Products space for optimal performance and ensure compliance to relevant standards.
• Take full ownership of an issue without supervision and handle and solve the issue depending on the complexity of the problem via the incident management tool and within stipulated SLA
• Work closely with the development team to help in permanent issue resolution
• Maintains a state-of-the-art subject matter expertise (SME) on existing and planned technologies, including related products and services offerings
• Assist to manage the availability and optimal performance of application configurations, problem and incident management to ensure IT service continuity and prompt support delivery
• Work with Engineers across various teams and other stakeholders to ensure new applications meet the organization’s operational standard and resolve the product bugs in production
• Collaborate with Infrastructure & Security Teams to ensure that vulnerabilities identified on Products are remediated appropriately
• Have a Sense of urgency to escalate product issues when appropriate; maintains a sense of problem ownership’ to drive all issues to a successful resolution.
• Fulfill service requests and perform routine maintenance and support activities
• Participate in the organization’s business continuity testing of critical products and services as it relates to products
• Assist with closing internal and external audit exceptions as it relates to products.
• Develop proactive ways of automating routine tasks within the team functions
• Soliciting and documentation of incident management reports and learnings from incidents and problems.

Requirements

• 3- 6 years of experience in technical or product support, preferably in a fintech or software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related disciplines
• Working knowledge of software development frameworks, concepts and best practices
• Working knowledge of structured systems analysis and design, and software development life cycle
• Intermediate knowledge of application design, implementation and operations
• Understanding of service management tools for event management, provisioning and monitoring
• Knowledge of APIs and API testing platforms etc.
• Customer-centricity
• Creative, results-oriented and analytical with strong problem-solving capability
• Strong SQL Skills
• ITIL – Service Management certification will be considered an asset
• Any Microsoft, google or Oracle certification will be considered an asset
• Ensure personal information of customers, employees, and other individuals the company conducts business with is processed and protected in line with applicable data privacy policies, privacy laws, and global best practices.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.