Senior Technical Support Engineer (Bilingual: English/Japanese)

Tokyo

Customer Success – Technical Support /

Full-time /

Remote

| Global Market for QA

Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

| About Us

Autify, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup that was founded by the first Japanese team to graduate from Alchemist Accelerator, one of the top accelerators in the US. With the mission to empower people’s creativity through technology, we have been offering an AI-powered automation platform aiming to eliminate the test phase.

Since 2019, we’ve been providing our AI-powered nocode test automation product and have grown the team to 100+. Our next move is to double down on GenAI. As we have been investing in AI and helping customers’ software quality since 2019, we know how to best utilize GenAI in software QA. With that, we have recently launched our new product, Genesis, a GenAI agent for software quality assurance.

| About This Role

The Technical Support Engineering (TSE) team is part of the Revenue department and was created to investigate and solve technical issues from customers that cannot be resolved by the first-tier Customer Support team.

Investigation is the primary focus, but TSE is also expected to help improve the capability of the Customer Support team to answer simple inquiries by themselves. This help can come in the form of documenting known issues, writing customer-facing documentation or providing training. Additionally, the team can propose logging and debugging improvements to both broaden and deepen the team’s investigation capability, carry out minor coding projects to implement said improvements, contribute to product documentation, and last but not least, make product improvement suggestions based on reported customer issues.

Since the root cause of a customer issue could occur anywhere within the Autify system, TSEs are required to develop a very broad understanding of Autify’s product architecture and infrastructure so that they can make a reasonable assumption about where to start investigating before digging deeper as and when needed.

Our primary stakeholders are the Customer Support and Customer Success teams, and we hold a variety of regular sync meetings with those teams to share information about potential issues, known issues, and any current investigations that are in progress and potentially of interest.

TSE uses the kanban workflow management system, and its daily standup and weekly team meetings are all held in English. Additionally, ad-hoc meetings may be held, such as for pair investigation work, and these can be done in English or Japanese depending on the preference and ability of the attending members.

Note:

- This role is aimed at supporting customers in the Japanese market, so you must be able to work during Japan business hours

- Working hours are flexible but you must be available during the core collaboration hours of 10 am to 3 pm JST.

Responsibilities

Handle advanced technical inquiries and incident reports from customers
Conduct root cause analysis through log reviews, reproducibility tests, and deep technical investigation
Manage escalations, report bugs, and communicate feature requests
Act as a technical liaison to support product improvements
Manage customer inquiries directly to ensure their proper resolution
Develop and operate automated systems such as AI-based investigation and AI-based triage
Contribute to the structuring and enhancement of knowledge data for AI learning
Provide support across multiple products
Troubleshoot from a cross-product perspective
Bridge customer needs with product development

Required Skills & Experience

3+ years of experience supporting and troubleshooting SaaS and desktop applications (experience as a developer handling technical support equivalent duties will also be considered)
Have a strong understanding of the Domain Object Model for HTML documents.
An understanding of multi-tier web architectures and how to troubleshoot them
Knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript
Experience using Playwright
Experience using AI development tools to improve day-to-day work
Excellent communication skills
Business-level English and Japanese language skills

Desirable Skills & Experience

A computer science or engineering background, preferably in web application or mobile app development
Experience with Ruby on Rails
Experience with test automation or software quality assurance - in particular, test automation frameworks such as Selenium or Appium
Experience using Gherkin test scripts
Customer-facing support experience in Japanese
Fluent English
Fluent Japanese

Desired Personality Traits

Strong discipline in analyzing and documenting issues
Passionate about digging deep into problems and going beyond a shallow understanding
Skilled at isolating and determining root causes from execution logs and error information
Able to prioritize and work to deadlines, even when the workload is high

¥7,000,000 - ¥10,000,000 a year

Reviewed twice a year

Selection Process

1. HR interview (English/Japanese): 45 mins

2. Technical interview (English): 60 mins

3. Hiring Manager interview (English): 60 mins

*Please note that we will ask you to provide references after the final interview.

| Employment Conditions

Employment Status

- Permanent employee (Full-time)

- Probation period: 6 months after joining the company (conditions are the same as permanent employment)

Work Location

- Tokyo office or Remote in Japan

Work Hours

- Full flextime time

Note: The determination of working hours (start and end times) must be made to the extent that one's own duties (including guidance and supervision of subordinates) are properly performed and that there are no obstacles to work in terms of coordination and communication with other employees.

Bonus

- Twice a year

Holidays/PTO

- Complete a five-day workweek system (National holidays, Year-end and New Year holidays, etc.)

- Unlimited paid time off

Benefits

- Equipped with various social insurance

- Regular health checkups

- Stock option

- A laptop PC will be rented when joining the company

- Remote work allowance

- English learning support