About AppDirect

Become a digital, global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product, through any channel, on any device - as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven culture - one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work.

About Firstbase, an AppDirect subsidiary

Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history. Nothing will deliver a higher quality of life upgrade in the next decade. The biggest challenge is in providing the infrastructure that makes going remote easy for companies and Firstbase is delivering this core infrastructure that makes remote and hybrid work possible and sustainable for companies around the world.

Today, we serve both workers and businesses by doing two things: we give businesses the ability to instantly support remote workers with all the physical goods they need to do great work (from computers to furniture to company swag & perks), and we give workers the ability to pick and choose what they need for their unique circumstances, then return it when they leave.

About You

Firstbase is on a mission to empower remote work. The Customer Experience team is the driving force delivering an unparalleled customer experience to those who have chosen to make the investment in their people.

Our customers are asking us to solve the most difficult challenges behind supporting remote work; making sure remote workers are set up to be successful in their chosen space. Our Customer Experience team is the group that not only guides them on their journey, but is also their most trusted resource along the way. This team breaks through barriers and works to deliver the best customer experience possible, because it is what we would want for ourselves. We aim to take the burden of logistics off of our users across the world, while making them excited to have partnered with Firstbase.

We are seeking a Customer Experience Associate to work ET and/or CT time zones to assist our customers with optimizing their experience with Firstbase. We are looking for someone who demonstrates empathy, organizational skills, as well as problem solving abilities, to assist us in the remote work revolution.

Onboarding includes a comprehensive training and shadowing experience that will empower you to support our customers with ease.                                                                                                                  

What you’ll do and how you’ll have an impact

• Respond to and resolve customer queries and other inbound/outbound requests via email, in a thoughtful, timely and accurate way.
• Act as a process and product expert, being able to quickly and accurately consult users on best practices and how Firstbase operates.
• Create and maintain customer-facing FAQs, videos, and other support materials in our Help Center. Strive to empower customers to help themselves.
• Collect and share user suggestions, as well as pain points, directly with the rest of the company (particularly our Product and Operations teams).
• Identify areas of operational improvement within the CX team as well as the overall organization. Feel and be empowered to make those improvements.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years experience as a Customer Support Specialist in physical goods operations companies, working with logistics carriers and warehouse operations
• BA/BS degree or similar university education
• Ability to work quickly and independently with excellent time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that can be tailored to a broad range of requesters, plus innate follow-up skills
• Experience using Zendesk, Jira and/or other help desk software and remote support tools
• Ability to adapt to new tools and technologies

At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

At AppDirect we take privacy very seriously. For more information about our use and handling of personal data from job applicants, please read our Candidate Privacy Policy. For more information of our general privacy practices, please see AppDirect Privacy Notice: https://www.appdirect.com/about/privacy-notice

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Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.