Technical Support Engineer

Buscojobs; Canterbury; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Canterbury seeks a Technical Support Engineer to deliver high-quality support for their platform. Your role will involve troubleshooting issues, providing customer coaching, and collaborating with internal teams to enhance user experience. Ideal candidates will have strong technical skills and the ability to communicate effectively. Hybrid working options available with a focus on employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Access to Go1 learning

Paid parental leave

Quarterly Wellbeing Days

Employee talent referral scheme

Fun and friendly culture

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills for resolving software issues.
• Ability to communicate solutions clearly to users.
• Experience with customer support in a technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide responsive, high-quality technical support to customers.
• Troubleshoot software problems and communicate solutions.
• Identify opportunities for client upskilling and provide guidance.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve support experience.
• Assist in product testing to ensure optimum outcomes.

Skills

Understanding of databases and experience writing queries with Microsoft SQL Server

Familiarity with network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS/SSL, RDP, SMTP)

Knowledge of file transfer protocols such as sFTP

Experience with remote access tools like ConnectWise Control or TeamViewer

Comfort with supporting web-based applications

Job description

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces.

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Payroll, and Wellbeing.

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 customers and almost 1 million employees under management in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America and the Philippines.

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces.

Who you are

As a Technical Support Engineer, you will take on the exciting challenge of delivering outstanding support to both customers and end users, helping them unlock the full potential of their Humanforce investment. In this role, you'll manage customer relationships, troubleshoot issues, assist with software installation and testing, and collaborate closely with internal teams to resolve any customer concerns. You will be instrumental in ensuring customer satisfaction by serving as a subject matter expert in essential areas such as awards, while providing timely and effective technical solutions that meet our service level agreements (SLAs).

What you will do

• Technical Support: Provide responsive, high-quality support to customers using the Humanforce platform, resolving technical issues efficiently and professionally.
• Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot software problems, investigate root causes, and clearly communicate solutions in a way that’s easy for users to understand.
• Customer Coaching: Identify opportunities for client upskilling and deliver helpful guidance to ensure users get the most out of Humanforce.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams to escalate complex issues, share insights, and continuously improve the support experience.
• Product Testing: Assist in verifying product issues or changes to ensure optimal client outcomes.

What you’ll need

• Understanding of databases and experience writing queries with Microsoft SQL Server
• Familiarity with network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS/SSL, RDP, SMTP)
• Knowledge of file transfer protocols such as sFTP
• Experience with remote access tools like ConnectWise Control or TeamViewer
• Comfort with supporting web-based applications

Some ‘nice to haves’

• Experience with Workforce Management (WFM), HCM, or Payroll software is a plus

Our values

• We are bold
• We are all in
• We are customer obsessed
• We do what we say
• We are good humans

Our approach to flexibility

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms.

• A flexible working environment
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company
• A focus on development with access to Go1 learning
• Paid parental leave and Quarterly Wellbeing Days
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)
• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people
• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work!

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.