Support Engineer
Customer Service
United Kingdom · London, UK · Cardiff, UK
Dubai
Company Description
Aforza is a smart thinking startup focused on transforming the Consumer Goods industry by providing businesses and consumers with ground-breaking digital applications that re-define usability and value. Backed by key Silicon Valley investors and built in partnership with Salesforce, the worldwide leader in cloud business applications, Aforza is helps lead FMCG/CPG companies close the agility gaps to drive positive commercial transformation.
At Aforza - our values and culture are aligned with how we see the world: yes, we want to build applications that our users love, but in doing so, we want to make the world a better place by helping to reduce waste and pollution. Hence, our commitment goes way beyond building great cloud solutions. We not only enable our clients to be more efficient and effective but are also building meaningful partnerships focusing on helping our clients reduce waste by providing best in class intelligence and automation wherever they conduct their business.
Job Description
Aforza is looking for a talented Support Engineer to the first point of contact for customers experiencing challenges using our products. As a Support Engineer, you will have an intimate technical and functional understanding of the Aforza platform and work closely with customers to solve their queries quickly and efficiently.
You will also work alongside our product engineering team, escalating more critical matters to them when necessary and will keep a keen eye out for areas in which our products can be improved. You’ll also leverage your deep technical and functional expertise, creative thinking, and top problem-solving skills to help ensure our customers are as successful as possible with our industry leading products.
Requirements
- Be the first point of contact for customers facing challenges with our products, helping them solve quickly and efficiently.
- Leverage your strong project technical and functional skills, helping create and deliver effective solutions.
- Assisting customers in troubleshooting their custom code, integration, and implementation of Aforza products. This involves debugging, troubleshooting, and ensuring issues are fully resolved.
- Developing and maintaining technical expertise in assigned areas of product functionality.
- Demonstrating exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving expertise.
- Managing customer expectations and the customer experience to maximize customer satisfaction.
- Actively maintaining and participating in job-related training activities.
- Demonstrating the ability to research, document, and prioritize customer issues, leveraging internal tools and escalation teams as necessary, as well as prioritizing and managing time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Multitasking and performing effectively under pressure.
- Pull from and maintain a knowledge base of common customer queries.
- Work as a team player by contributing, learning and sharing new knowledge, but be self-motivated, flexible, and take initiative.
Qualifications
- Quality academic background. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in computer science or similar.
- Experience with Salesforce and/or CRM applications and other cloud-based technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with reading/writing HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Experience with Database concepts, Data management (RDBMS), and SQL
- Demonstrated skill in Customer Support or Customer Service in a customer-facing role
- Salesforce Certified Administrator, App Builder, and Platform Developer (bonus)
- Strong interpersonal skills – a blend of strength of conviction with diplomacy and a constructive attitude.
- Strong work ethic, initiative, and drive, you will have a bias for action and a comfort with data and insight analysis.
- Bonus to have multilingual skills (English, French, German). You’ll be a self-starter, adept at picking up new techniques and skills.
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