Support Engineer -Payments

Tekskills Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Bengaluru, India seeks a skilled Support Engineer to bolster payments platforms. You will investigate issues around charges, refunds, and payouts, and triage high-priority tickets across systems.

You will partner with Finance, Software, and Product teams, analyze data, logs, and APIs to identify root causes, implement improvements, and communicate findings to stakeholders clearly.

Qualifications

• Must have strong SQL and data-model understanding.
• Experience analyzing log files and using command line tools.
• Scripting knowledge in Python, Perl, PHP, Bash or similar.
• Experience with Jira or similar ticketing systems.
• Proficient with spreadsheets and office tools for data output.
• Able to troubleshoot systems to resolve errors.
• Cross-functional awareness across QA, Dev and Product.
• Ability to analyze data and produce actionable outcomes.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting frameworks.
• Experience with API or event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and manage incoming work and support requests.
• Analyze issues to identify root causes and track progress in tickets.
• Keep stakeholders informed and aware of ongoing issues.
• Triage issues reported by stakeholders and investigate across systems.

Skills

SQL

Log analysis

Command line

Scripting

Jira

Spreadsheets

System troubleshooting

Cross-functional

Data analysis

Monitoring & alerting

API / Event-driven

Education

Engineering degree (MCA/MTech/BTech/B.E.)

Tools

Jira

ELK

Grafana

Jaeger

Job description

Responsibilities :

The support engineer supports tech and product teams with investigations into issues around charges, refunds and payouts.

The support engineer will:

• Independently prioritize and manage incoming work and support requests.
• Analyze issues to identify root causes and track progress in the ticketing system.
• Keep stakeholders informed and maintain awareness of ongoing issues.

They communicate directly with stakeholders, often operational specialists in the Finance department, Software developers and Product managers. They have excellent analytical skills and enjoy the challenge of getting to the root of inconsistencies in financial information that require investigation into multiple systems, databases, and log files.

The support engineer provides a first line of support and can triage issues reported by different stakeholders. They analyze complex financial processes that are executed by a range of systems in a microservices architecture. As a result of their investigation, they identify short- and long-term improvements to business logic, testing and operational procedures.

Must have skills.

• Excellent SQL knowledge and deep understanding of data models.
• Experience analyzing log files.
• Experience with command line tools.
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, PHP, Bash, .).
• Experience with ticketing systems, preferably Jira.
• Proficient working with spreadsheets and other office tools.
• System troubleshooting to resolve errors
• Cross functional awareness about QA , Dev & Product to bridge the gap and facilitate smoother collaboration
• Ability to analyze data and produce the required data outcome
• Knowledge about system monitoring & alerting framework
• Experience with API or Event Drive event architecture.

Nice to have Skills

• Knowledge in one programming knowledge e.g. Java
• Past experience using ELK, Grafana , Jaeger etc is a plus
• Experience in working application handling PCI & PII data
• Worked as Software Engineer or QA in past
• Knowledge about Jmeter and performance/load test

Personality

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Good verbal and written communication in English.
• Able to independently prioritize work, investigate and reach out for support from various people in the business.
• Able to independently manage stakeholders relations.
• Flexible in the type of work they take on and adaptable to changing circumstances. A good listener with the ability to empathize with stakeholder concerns.

Preferred experience

• 4+ Years in a technical role (Systems analyst, Operations analyst, Quality engineer, Business analyst).
• 2+ Years experience working in Payments, FinTech and or financial accounting. 1+ years’ experience working as a support engineer.
• Education background with one of the Engineering Degree MCA/MTech///B.tech/B.E.

Key relationships

• Product managers.
• Payment operations specialists.
• Software developers.
• Finance specialists.

Growth paths

• Software developer.
• Quality engineer.