Principal Java Developer - Client success

ROLE:  

Address technical issues relating to software implementation, function, and upgrades. Resolve customer complaints or problems and create product problem reports and troubleshoot documents for each issue. Work closely with application support and development teams to identify and resolve any technical problems that might arise during the development of software. Work with Implementation teams and Account managers to recommend solutions to new customer implementations and workflows.  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Understanding the PeopleScout architecture and framework  
• Provide L2 support for tickets passed on by L1 support team using advanced knowledge of Java, SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions, and database development.  
• Analyze and understand Java code to debug, trace, and communicate technical issues effectively with the Development team.  
• Review application logs, perform exception analysis, monitor system performance, and identify root causes to ensure timely issue resolution and optimal application performance.
• Provide technical support to application support team
• Develop solutions to complex customer and software problems
• Assist with software design and development  
• Work within an agile environment  
• Deliver sprint commitments on time
• Be responsible for your own code, and work with others to improve the quality and deliver of theirs  
• Document troubleshooting guides and outcomes of problems, analysis and solutions for future re-use  

MUST HAVE SKILLS: 

• 5 to 8 years of experience in L2 Application Support, preferably supporting SaaS products.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with Java applications, SQL, and REST APIs.  
• Strong hands-on experience with Core Java (Java 8 or above).  
• Good understanding of Spring Boot and Java-based enterprise applications.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues, performing root cause analysis (RCA), and resolving incidents within SLA  
• Strong SQL skills with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server.  
• Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, and API testing tools like Postman.
• Ability to analyze application logs using tools such as Splunk, Kibana, ELK, or Grafana.
• Excellent customer communication skills with experience managing client interactions and providing timely updates.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow/Jira, Linux basics, and log analysis for application support

Technical Support Engineer

About the Role:

We're looking for a Technical Support Engineer to join our team and serve as the critical bridge between our customers and engineering team. This role combines customer-facing support with hands-on technical troubleshooting, requiring someone who can both empathise with user challenges and dive into code to identify and resolve issues.

You'll be the first line of technical defence, investigating customer-reported issues, reproducing bugs, reading through our codebase to understand root causes, and working closely with the development team to implement fixes. This is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, loves helping people, and wants to leverage their technical skills in a customer-focused role.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Investigation & Bug Identification

• Review application logs, error messages, and stack traces to diagnose issues
• Read and navigate through our MERN stack codebase to understand system behaviour
• Reproduce reported bugs in staging/development environments
• Identify whether issues stem from code bugs, configuration problems, infrastructure issues, or user error
• Perform root cause analysis and provide technical insights to the engineering team

Monitoring & Proactive Support

• Monitor AWS infrastructure health and application performance metrics
• Identify patterns in support tickets that may indicate broader system issues
• Collaborate with engineering on bug fixes and verify resolutions in production
• Test new features from a customer perspective before release

Required QualificationsTechnical Skills

• Strong understanding of web application architecture and software engineering principles
• Hands-on experience with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js)
• Ability to read and understand JavaScript/TypeScript code
• Experience with AWS services (ECS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS, etc.)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, HTTP protocols, and debugging API requests
• Understanding of database concepts and ability to write basic MongoDB and SQL queries
• Experience with Git and version control concepts
• Knowledge of browser developer tools for debugging frontend issues

Soft Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Patience and empathy when dealing with frustrated customers
• Self-motivated with ability to manage multiple issues simultaneously
• Detail-oriented with good documentation habits

Experience

• 1+ years in technical support, customer success, or similar role
• 1+ years working with or around software development teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS troubleshooting and CloudWatch logs analysis
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Previous experience in a SaaS or platform company
• Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc.)
• Exposure to agile development methodologies

What You'll Work With

• Frontend: React.js applications with modern JavaScript/TypeScript
• Backend: Node.js/Express.js APIs
• Database: MongoDB, MySQL
• Infrastructure: AWS (various services)
• Tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack
• Environment: Fast-paced with direct access to engineering team

Technical Support Engineers (TSE) make up a small, talented, and dedicated global team providing an important part of the Pendo experience through guidance and consulting to customers. We pride ourselves on prompt responses to customers with a range of technical capabilities to ensure the success of customers across our web and mobile features as part of the Engineering organization. While the entire company has a customer focus, TSEs make champions out of our customers and provide a partnership experience through professional and accurate technical support.

Responsibilities:

• Answer customer questions through our support queue
• Be the voice of the customer to the Product and Engineering organizations
• Debug customer issues, create reproducible test cases for developers, and validate fixes and workarounds
• Take ownership of pushing cases to resolution, including working with developers
• Actively contribute to knowledge documentation through the creation of internal and customer-facing documentation
• Qualifications (your experience):
• Highly empathetic and passionate about helping others at a moment's notice
• Applied coding knowledge - Front End or API
• Reliable and active team member
• Ability to learn technical concepts and translate them to business solutions for customers with a thirst for knowledge
• Conversational fluency in spoken and written English
• 2+ years of professional experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and/or Mobile Development
• 2+ years of professional experience working in a customer-facing role
• Proven record of continued education/pursuit of knowledge in technology (computer science degree, coding school, other relevant courses)

This is a chance to get in early on something that's scaling fast, and to get years of experience compressed into months because of it. Instead of managing a slice of an established machine, you'll be sitting across from senior engineering leaders as a peer, designing the drills that decide whether a team holds together the day it actually matters, and watching people get visibly better at their jobs because of something you built. That kind of exposure and ownership doesn't exist at a big firm where you're twenty layers from the outcome. Here, what you do this month changes what the company looks like the next, and you'll build in a year the judgment it takes most people a decade to earn.

The role

We're hiring a Customer Success Engineer to be the backbone of our customer relationships. You'll work directly with customers, using our innovative platform to teach them to become elite, world class incident responders.

This is a role built around seeing people get better every day. You'll be part of a brand new, innovative method of teaching incident response skills, and you'll help people so that when an incident actually happens, they don't panic. They stay effective and make a meaningful impact, both for themselves and for their organisation. You'll also have a direct line into shaping and improving the product itself through what you see and learn in the field.

What you'll do

• Work hands on with customers running simulations, coaching and teaching them so their teams get better at incident response. Being a great coach is non negotiable here, and we want people who genuinely enjoy helping others improve.
• Take full ownership of customer outcomes. Proactively spot risk, gaps and opportunities rather than waiting to be asked, and drive them to resolution without needing to be chased.
• Partner with product to design and refine drill simulations, working closely with customers to get feedback and make sure every simulation is genuinely impactful.
• Work at startup pace. Partner cross functionally with sales, product and engineering, feed customer insight back into the roadmap, and help us grow rapidly as a company.
• Be comfortable learning resiliency engineering, cognitive systems design and other best practices as we develop them, and bring that learning back into how we teach and build.

What you'll bring

• 4+ years of hands on incident response experience as an SRE, on call engineer or first responder. You've been paged at 3am, run an incident bridge and written the postmortem. This isn't theoretical.
• Exceptional communication range. Equally comfortable presenting incident maturity findings to a senior exec and getting into the technical weeds with a mid level engineer. You adjust altitude naturally without dumbing anything down.
• A genuine growth mindset. You're excited to learn resiliency engineering and cognitive systems design style thinking, and you want to get hands on building better drills and incidents, even if you haven't done it before.
• Extreme ownership. You don't wait for instructions. You spot the problem, take the initiative and see it through.
• Genuine excitement to work at a fast growing startup. Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and wearing multiple hats as we scale.

What would make you stand out

• You enjoy teaching and sharing knowledge, whether that's pairing with someone, onboarding new colleagues or something entirely outside of work.
• You can clearly communicate your own on call experience, including the pain that comes with it.
• You care about impact. It's not just about doing the job well, it's about whether what you did actually moved the dial for the customer.