Senior Application Support Engineer

FirstPro is now accepting resumes for a Senior Application Support Engineer position based in Somerville, MA. This role will focus on supporting customer-facing operations by responding to operational and business issues while leading a small team. This is a permanent, direct-hire role that can offer benefits and a hybrid working schedule.

Only candidates in the Greater Boston Area will be considered, as you will have to work onsite on a weekly basis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of Application Support Engineers, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
• Manage the team's daily operations, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of customer issues in alignment with company SLAs.
• Collaborate with other departments (e.g., CSM, Sales, Billing, Development, IT, etc) to drive the resolution of complex client issues and improve product offerings.
• Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, address challenges, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Act as a point of escalation for critical issues, providing strategic input and directing the team on best practices for issue resolution.
• Monitor and analyze team performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and ensure service quality.
• Coordinate the on-call schedule and provide support during high-priority incidents.
• Foster a collaborative and supportive work environment, encouraging team growth and professional development.
• Support change management and incident review processes, ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into future workflows.
• Provide customer support in accordance with company SLAs via email, phone, or live chat.
• Act as a technical first responder. Triage technical issues across multiple infrastructure levels (network, OS, application). Prioritize and escalate issues according to the severity and details of each case.
• Analyze logs, FIX messages, and other primary sources to determine the root cause of trading and quoting issues.
• Manage upgrades and migrations for the company and related application software. Perform system check-out after the process is completed.
• Develop subject matter expertise and be an ambassador of digital asset knowledge within the team.
• Work with clients to appropriately configure each aspect of their application, including liquidity provider details, order routing configuration, trading platform connectivity, and prime broker give-up arrangements.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience in a support or technical role, with the ability to manage and develop a small team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high attention to detail.
• Ability to process multiple client communication streams and make high-quality decisions under pressure.
• Desire and ability to learn new skills and tools, and enthusiastically take on new opportunities and tough challenges.
• High proficiency level (power user) with Microsoft Windows OS.
• 5+ yr experience supporting clients in the financial services industry.
• Understanding of FIX protocol.
• Basic knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking.
• Basic knowledge of SQL (PGSQL, MYSQL).