Developer Support Specialist

Brex
Vancouver, Canada
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at early-career engineers or technical professionals with customer-facing experience who can bridge developer needs and internal engineering teams.

Best fit for

  • Early-career engineers with a background in customer support and API integration experience
    — “This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their engineering career to work closely with developers.”
  • Individuals with hands-on experience in accounting integrations like NetSuite or Xero
    — “Experience working with accounting integrations such as Netsuite, QBO, and Xero”
  • Candidates who thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy translating customer feedback into product improvements
    — “We have the opportunity to provide insights and feedback, as well as identify process improvements to our partner teams”

Things to consider

  • The role involves direct customer engagement and high expectations for satisfaction and resolution
    — “we prioritize customer retention, which we accomplish by keeping high standards for how we serve our customers”
  • There is a need to manage multiple communication channels, including email and in-person calls
    — “Attend or own calls with customer escalations as needed and own customer email queues”

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific examples of resolving technical issues with developers in your resume and interviews
    — “investigate technical issues”
  • Demonstrate your ability to create and maintain technical documentation and training materials
    — “Develop self-service options by creating and maintaining training material”
  • Showcase experience in capturing and translating customer feedback into actionable insights
    — “provide insights and feedback, as well as identify process improvements to our partner teams”
  • Emphasize your familiarity with REST or GraphQL APIs and how it helps support developers
    — “Familiarity with REST or GraphQL API calls”
  • Demonstrate comfort with working across multiple internal teams like engineering and product
    — “working closely with Brex’s internal engineering, product, and design teams”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • high customer satisfaction
  • successful resolution of technical issues
  • improved self-service content
Typical background
technical supportdeveloper relationssoftware engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical SupportDeveloper RelationsAPI SupportCustomer ServiceProblem-solving

Preferred

Product KnowledgeTeam Collaboration

Stack & domain

ApisSQLNosql DatabasesRESTGraphQLLookerDatadogSalesforceJiraRetoolLow-code/no-code Tools

About the role

Original posting from Brex

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Customer Experience at Brex

The Customer Experience (CX) team provides our customers with constant, live support as they build and grow their businesses. Our team is a passionate group that understands how to give customers a seamless support experience. In communication with our customers daily, we have the opportunity to provide insights and feedback, as well as identify process improvements to our partner teams—sales, products, operations, and engineering. We prioritize customer retention, which we accomplish by keeping high standards for how we serve our customers and making sure they leave every conversation satisfied and inspired.

What you’ll do

Brex features a full suite of APIs to empower our customers and partners to never-before seen things in the finance world. As a Developer Support Specialist, you are the front-line point of contact supporting developers to be successful when using Brex’s API.  This role is a hybrid position consisting of relations with external developers, Brex customers and working closely with Brex’s internal engineering, product, and design teams. Day-to-day, you work directly with external developers to advise on best practices, improve self-serve content, and investigate technical issues. You will also be partnering with internal engineering and design teams, triaging complex ticket escalations from Support, and closing the feedback loop between teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their engineering career to work closely with developers.

Responsibilities

Provide direct technical support to developers using Brex’s APIs, delivering the highest level of developer satisfaction

Work closely with engineering, product, and design teams to ensure feedback from developers is captured and, where appropriate, used to build, drive and improve our tools and processes

Attend or own calls with customer escalations as needed and own customer email queues

Develop self-service options by creating and maintaining training material, customer resources and guides

Directly field technical escalations from the Support team and follow engineering tickets through to resolution

Recognized as a trusted ERP expert by owning escalations for Brex’s Integrations (NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Sage Intacct, Expensify, Concur, CoupaPay, Conferma, Workday ERP, Oracle Fusion, etc) working directly with customers, CSMs, or CX to solve their issue 

What We Value

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent work experience

Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting and debugging skills

Good customer-centric attitude

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to communicate complex technical issues via email and in person

Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards

Experience in a customer facing role in the past (this does not need to be a technical customer-facing role)

Experience working with accounting integrations such as Netsuite, QBO, and Xero

Bonus Points

Understanding financial systems and services

Familiarity with programming languages 

Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases 

Experience working with REST or GraphQL API calls

Familiarity with software engineering development cycles 

Experience using tools such as Looker, Datadog, Salesforce, Jira, Retool, and low-code/no-code tools

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role in Vancouver is $82,386 to $86,722 CAD. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Source: Brex careers

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