Avalara is looking for a great Junior Technical Support Engineer / Technical Support Engineer @ Pune

www.jobinvent.com 28 Dec 2019
Company Name
Avalara Technologies Private Limited
Company Website
http://www.avalara.com/in
Experience
2 + Yrs
Job Role
Technical Support Engineer
Job Type
  • Experienced
Job Location
  • Pune

About Company

  • Avalara is a business leader in indirect tax automation and has 23000+ customers worldwide. Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. 
  • Our comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.  Our Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance tasks imposed by the state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world. 
  • Avalara offers more than 650+ pre-built connectors into leading accounting systems, ERP, ecommerce platforms, and other business applications. 
  • Each year, we process billions of indirect tax transactions, file hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns, and manage millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents. 
  • Avalara’s headquarters are in Seattle, WA and we have offices across the US, UK, Brazil, Belgium and India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Eligibility Criteria

  • 2+ years’ experience, providing direct technical support to external customers by phone and electronically
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to navigate challenging situations, in a professional manner
  • Proven ability to effectively communicate both orally and written Business communication, with individuals of varying technical skills and abilities
  • Work collaboratively with willingness to listen and work in fast paced challenging environment
  • Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize, manage, multi-task and execute cross-functionally
  • Experience with Product based company
  • Experience with SaaS based solutions
  • Critical thinking
  • You like to tinker and love technology
  • Experience in SQL Programming
  • Conversant with Java/PHP programming
  • Conversant with working with XML
  • Conversant with .Net Programming
  • Database knowledge
  • Knowledge of Sales Tax (VAT & Use Tax)
  • Experience in ERP Domainxperience of tracking tools like Salesforce & Atlassian Jira.

Things To Remember

  • S/he must be willing to work with US Pacific overlapping time as per need basis and rotational shifts
  • Should be able to travel to US as needed

Job Description

  • Serve as front line contact for external customers by answering technical support telephone calls and emails
  • Answer questions and troubleshoot issues related to use of SaaS software applications
  • Act as an advocate for the customer and effectively communicate feedback to and from the members of our product development, product management etc. in a very clear and concise method
  • Take ownership of technical issues from initial report to final resolution
  • Assist internal groups with technical issues and inquiries
  • Set up test environments to verify reported software bugs and record in our issue tracking system - Jira
  • Communicate clearly and concisely with customers in written and verbal form, and maintain accurate and timely records on our ticket tracking system – Salesforce
  • Create support documentation to be used internally as well as for customers
  • Meet individual case management, SLA and C-SAT goals
  • Proactively monitor the customer’s environment by running reports and activity logs and product usage to identify application issues that prevent customers from achieving system supported business objectives
  • Maintain customer support call communications in our CRM application - Salesforce
  • Help expand the knowledge base towards self-serving customers by producing relevant, accurate documentation like FAQs, User manuals, Installation guides etc
  • Effectively train customers on Avalara product(s)
  • Should be able to write basic database queries and troubleshoot customer issues
  • Be open to accept additional responsibilities assigned to meet the deadlines
  • Perform related duties as assigned by Supervisor
  • Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures

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