Technical Support Engineer — Systems Debug & Automation

BusRight Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BusRight Inc. is seeking a hands-on Technical Support Engineer to investigate real-world system behavior across our application, APIs, logs, data integrations, GPS systems, hardware, and codebase.

You will write TypeScript/JavaScript scripts, improve internal tools, and build solutions that automate workflows and validate integrations. You will own complex customer issues from investigation through resolution, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and customers as needed.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in support engineering, software engineering, solutions engineering, technical support, or a similar technical role.
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript experience, including the ability to understand existing code and write new scripts independently.
• Experience debugging software and investigating production system behaviour.
• Experience working with APIs, logs, backend systems, integrations, and structured data.
• Comfortable building internal tools and scripts to solve problems that do not have an existing solution.
• Comfortable maintaining code and tooling after the initial solution is built.
• Experience analyzing data using SQL, spreadsheets, scripts, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to break ambiguous problems into smaller technical questions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical findings clearly.
• A strong sense of ownership and willingness to drive problems through resolution.
• Comfortable working in a fast moving environment where you may need to design the solution rather than follow an existing process.
• Experience with or strong interest in using AI as part of everyday engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Investigate complex production issues across application behaviour, APIs, logs, integrations, data, GPS, and hardware
• Read and understand existing TypeScript and JavaScript code to trace system behavior and identify root causes
• Write new TypeScript and JavaScript scripts to solve technical and operational problems
• Maintain and improve existing internal scripts and tools as requirements and systems evolve
• Build custom tooling for data analysis, troubleshooting, validation, reporting, and internal workflows
• Work with APIs and large datasets to investigate issues and build solutions
• Reproduce bugs and provide Engineering with clear technical findings, evidence, and recommended next steps
• Troubleshoot Student Information System integrations and data synchronization issues
• Investigate GPS, tablet, connectivity, and other deployed hardware behavior
• Identify repetitive work and replace it with automation, tooling, or better internal systems
• Use AI assisted workflows to accelerate coding, debugging, investigation, and technical problem solving
• Own complex customer reported issues through resolution and ensure technical problems do not get lost between teams

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

APIs

SQL

Data analysis

Ownership

Tools

Debugging tools

Logging systems

Internal scripting

Job description

BusRight Inc. is seeking a hands-on Technical Support Engineer to investigate real-world system behavior across our application, APIs, logs, data integrations, GPS systems, hardware, and codebase.

You will write TypeScript/JavaScript scripts, improve internal tools, and build solutions that automate workflows and validate integrations. You will own complex customer issues from investigation through resolution, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and customers as needed.