Remote-first
Core hours 11–3
Dog friendly
Job Description
Team & role
Ably is an engineering company at its heart. Our audience ranges from software engineers to CIOs and it’s our job to make sure the world knows about Ably. Providing world class support by troubleshooting our customers' problems will be your number one priority. Managing these queries and seeing them to resolution whilst ensuring the highest quality and levels of service will be at the heart of everything you do.
Day to day, you will:
Act as initial point of contact and take ownership of customer reported issues, both technical and account related queries, and see those issues through to resolution.
Be a technical expert on Ably services.
Work with our users who are software developers to troubleshoot and identify solutions, through research and diagnosis. This can include debugging code.
Follow appropriate procedures to escalate unresolved issues internally so that customer issues are resolved in a timely manner and deliver excellent customer experience.
Assist with the success of Ably’s Enterprise customers by supporting the onboarding and post-sale experience.
Refer to Ably documentation and resources to provide accurate suggestions and feedback to customers.
Ensure all issues are properly captured and documented
Prioritize and manage several open issues at one time
Follow up with customers to check that the issue has been resolved correctly
Be positive and engaging with customers
Desired skills & experience
Solid experience working on an enterprise support desk dealing with all levels of issues
An eagerness to learn about the company’s products and their capabilities.
Technical aptitude and the ability to understand realtime concepts.
Experience working with and troubleshooting APIs
Previous experience at writing code in at least one of the languages that we work, which are most often at Ably Javascript, Swift/Objective-C, Java/Kotlin, C#, Go, Ruby, Python or PHP.
Good communications skills and are patient, thoughtful and helpful
Natural disposition for documenting technical concepts and instructions
An ability to work with a high degree of autonomy.
Experience supporting developers as the key customer contact as this will form 90% of your customer communications.
What's it like to work with us?
Ably is entering a new phase of growth led by an experienced senior team. You’ll be part of a successful, highly motivated, and extremely collaborative team. To provide the infrastructure required for the next generation of the internet, to tell the world about it, and to support everyone inside Ably to do so, we hire people who are ready and capable of taking on challenging problems in a high-growth environment.
We want to work in a company of inclusive people who treat each other well. To thrive at Ably, you’ll need to believe in and be prepared to do your work in line with our values:
- Open for all. Open is a mindset. When open, we’re better collaborators, communicators and creators. Whether open source, standards, or protocols, open hearts, minds, and eyes. It’s better when it’s open.
- Bias for action. We avoid analysis paralysis at all costs. We lean into doing in order to move us forward. When we have enough of what we need to act, we act.
- Even the best do better. We want to be the best - but that doesn’t mean we rest when we are. Improvement and growth - true betterment - is an ongoing journey. One fuelled by curiosity and taking risks.
- Technology needs humanity. Our technology means little without people - whether that’s how we treat our colleagues, or how we design developer experiences. Being human matters.
- Dependable people make dependable things. Dependability is integral to our mission and technology, but being dependable starts with our people. When we care enough to take real ownership of our products and problems - all else will follow.
- Bold creativity leads to the greatest rewards. When viewed through a different lens, what stands in the way can become the way. The bigger the challenge the easier the choice: bold creativity will always move us forward, create better outcomes, and set us apart.
What’s in it for you?
A great company culture
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The chance to learn and grow with a fast-moving company, supported by a learning budget that gives you access to professional training, events, conferences, workshops etc.
Remote first: Unless you want to pop into our communal office space in Shoreditch, London, you’ll work from home most of the time, apart from when we have planning sessions and Summits. Travel to the office is at the employee's expense, apart from when we have Ably Summits
Your choice of high quality tech kit to work on
Home workstation set up budget of £500, plus an annual top-up of £150
Regular company away days and social events
Friday need-to-know drinks and snacks
Private health insurance, including Doctor@Hand
Access to private and confidential coaching with Sanctus
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with AXA
A monthly wellbeing budget with Juno
25 days of paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)
10 days of paid sick leave (including mental health days) per year
Dog friendly office for when you’re in the office!
If you enjoy working as part of a technology company, value open source, and love solving hard problems - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.
We believe our differences as individuals is what makes us great. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage everyone to be their most authentic self at Ably: we see inclusivity and openness as fundamental to creating long-term success as an organization. We encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race, religion, educational background or neurodiversity. Ably has an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we want anyone to be able to contribute to that opportunity.
Company benefits
The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility
First we assess the flexibility options Ably provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Ably is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.
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