Interfolio is on a mission to build smart, inspired and appealing products for faculty and academic communities. By providing the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support, Interfolio has built an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. ByCommittee, Interfolio’s enterprise solution for committee workflow management, provides a platform for analytics and business intelligence to help universities make informed, strategic decisions about recruitment, tenure, and professional service. Interfolio is the first mover in defining and leading the market for faculty support solutions that cultivate goal-oriented collaboration around academic decision-making.

What’s even better than that? We’ve crafted a fun, collegial, dynamic culture that celebrates team and individual success almost daily. We’ve got a lean team of super-smart, super-hard working, local and remote colleagues who collaborate closely to produce a valuable service for an industry we’re passionate about. And, we genuinely like working with each other and with our clients.

Like what you’ve heard so far?

Then consider joining our engineering team. The position of full-stack engineer is open to remote employees as well as locals in commuting distance to our Washington, D.C. office. Interfolio is committed to diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national, social or ethnic origin, age, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, family or parental status, or any status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate.

Position responsibilities

As a full-stack engineer at Interfolio, you will:

• Deliver fully tested, high performing code
  
• Work with both frontend and backend technologies, bridging the gap while you participate in full feature sets
  
• Collaborate with a team of remote employees in the planning and execution of well-defined sprints
  
• Participate in our agile processes, working towards, and contributing to, the goals and vision of our roadmap
  
• Contribute ideas to help us grow and thrive as a team
  
  Qualifications and experience
  
  Skills we’re looking for:
  
  
• Solid background in engineering, as evidenced by real-world experience
  
• Seasoned experience with Ruby on Rails
  
• A strong comfort level with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  
• Experience using iterative and incremental methods and TDD and/or BDD
  
  In addition, you should have:
  
  
• Experience with a frontend framework such as Angular, React, Ember, etc.
  
• Experience with Git and GitHub for version control
  
• Experience creating APIs
  
• 2+ years of relevant experience
  
• Strong interest in higher education, startups, and/or SaaS technology
  
• The ability to speak and write fluently in English (as a minimum requirement)
  
  In addition to a competitive salary, Interfolio offers a robust benefits package that includes medical insurance, paid time off, a wellness benefit, and professional development opportunities. Our culture sets us apart—we look forward sharing more about our company and our team!

DESCRIPTION

For this position we're looking for a remote teammate in APAC timezones (UTC+8 ± 3 hours) to work an offset week. You will work 5 days a week but 2 of those days will be Saturday and Sunday. The two days that you take off are up to you.

The Customer Support team are primarily responsible for onboarding, educating, and supporting our customers on a global level. They start work the moment a customer decides they want to use Intercom, and they stick with them every step of the way to ensure they get the most value from the product. Support Engineers are responsible for working directly with customers to help them integrate Intercom into their products, diagnose, report, and solve technical issues customers run into, and act as the bridge between our customers and our product design and development teams.

As a Support Engineer you will:

• Face debugging complex issues not only within our own codebase but also with the many technologies employed by our customers. You'll be working with and learning a myriad of tech, including but not limited to: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Pusher, nginx, Sinatra, Sidekiq, and lots more. You’ll also apply this technical knowledge building tools to help us do our jobs more effectively and efficiently.
  
• Solve technical problems for customers on a daily basis. Our customer support engineers need to be quick learners and come up to speed quickly with everything to do with our product. You’ll be expected to distill complex issues into underlying causes and work directly with our product teams to deploy solutions while consistently delivering world-class support.
  
• Influence the direction of Intercom, the product. You will be talking with lots of our customers on a daily basis. The team is responsible for ensuring that newly acquired customers have a great experience with the product. A crucial part of the role is ensuring we make the product as easy to use, reliable, bug-free, and fast as possible. You will be working directly with product teams to identify current issues and, synthesizing the diverse feedback you hear from our customers, offer informed opinions on potential solutions. Hustle, defined as the fight to make positive, regular progress and encourage that fight in others, is key to the success of this team and Intercom as a whole.
  
• We like big thinkers with small egos who believe in our goal to build a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. Our vision is to fundamentally change forever how Internet businesses and their customers communicate.
  
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  REQUIREMENTS
  
  
• Being extremely self-motivated, driven, and highly communicative using asynchronous methods (You're used to living in chat apps like Slack or Hipchat)
  
• Previous experience in a remote working environment
  
• At least a junior level engineering or web development background and should be hungry to improve their technical skills
  
• Previous experience in a troubleshooting environment and be a great problem solver
  
• The ability to rapidly switch gears while retaining focus on the bigger picture
  
• Passion for talking to customers all day, every day
  
• Excellent communication skills. You need to be a very competent writer with the ability to explain complex topics in easy to understand and concise language [English]
  
• Strong JavaScript knowledge
  
• Unlike other companies, everyone in Intercom talks directly with customers. Candidates must be ambitious (every day counts!), eager to learn and improve themselves, excited about technology and the future of the internet, kind, without ego, and with a sense of humor.
  
  Bonus skills and attributes:
  
  
• Bachelor of Computer Science
  
• Strong knowledge of Ruby programming language
  
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and/or Ember.js frameworks
  
• Familiarity with native mobile development (iOS and/or Android)
  
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  BENEFITS
  
  
• A competitive salary
  
• Equity in a fast growing start-up
  
• Regular compensation reviews: great work is rewarded!
  
• Live where you want while contributing meaningfully to a very fast growing and dynamic startup
  
• Flexible holidays
  
• Something else that’s important to you? Talk to us, we’re flexible :)