Support Engineer - EMEA

Who are Tyk, and what do we do? The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)  If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.  Our Mission The internet started by connecting mainframes, by the end of the 20th century 600m desktop and laptop computers exchanged email and web-traffic. Today around 15 billion ‘things’ are connected to the internet, growing at a rate of a billion per year. Tyk are committed to enabling interconnectivity between systems and between devices. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.   Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world , for everyone – for real. Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of doing things differently and offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees are two principles that, we believe, allow our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier. If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more:   What can you do with us? We're looking for a Support Engineer to help us build on our reputation for great support, dealing with client support tickets, call requests and community forum posts. In this role you can also contribute to product development, helping implement features and contributing to product discussions, from a support perspective. This role involves participating in a weekend shift rotation to ensure we provide round-the-clock support to our global clientele. We're looking for highly-technical people with Support Engineering experience, who are happy to hit the ground running and help to design what great customer support looks like at Tyk.

What will this role be responsible for?

• Answering complex incoming customer tickets and requests, often involving troubleshooting and reading source code
• Supporting customers over screen shares/calls
• Validating customer bug reports
• Validating customer feature requests
• Own and manage severity issues for customers
• Effectively communicate customer support processes to clients
• Contribute to client facing content/documentation to support them better
• Build relationships with existing clients to better understand how they’re using Tyk
• Monitoring our community forum 
• Advocating for the customer at Tyk
• Participate in rotational weekend shifts to provide continuous support coverage for our global customer base
• Contributing to the vision for Next Level Support at Tyk
• Working on an on-call rota shift (weekends)

Experience needed:

• Experience providing technical support for a complex product
• Experience working collaboratively with core engineering teams
• Experience with reading programming languages. Need to be able to read Tyks source code
• Enthusiasm for dealing directly with clients
• Should have experience in a server side programming language, Go would be extremely advantageous
• Good English writing skills
• Background in software development and/or solution architecture
• General usage of Linux, scripting and related utilities
• Client-facing activities such as video conference calls and in-person meetings
• Understanding of common internet technologies, protocols, standards and data formats

• Solid experience in backend engineering and/or solution architecture for complex systems.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays. 
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better! Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up! 

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one! 

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count! 

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent! 

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act. 

• Make things better! 

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see. What’s it like to work here?! check it out: Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. You can see more about us here