Hybrid Technical Support Lead

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About the role

  • Senior Technical Support Lead providing technical leadership in a hybrid role at Swap, which connects backend operations with a modern storefront experience.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a senior technical advisor across Swap products, providing deep expertise during complex changes, launches, and incidents and manage the team.
  • Identify technical risk and readiness gaps early, and proactively flag issues that could impact customers or support teams.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to stress-test assumptions, surface support implications, and improve rollout quality.
  • Provide experienced technical decision-making and coverage from the US, supporting global teams during critical moments.
  • Lead the most complex and high-impact technical escalations, particularly those requiring deep product, integration, or architectural understanding.
  • Apply strong technical judgment to triage ambiguous or fast-moving situations, balancing customer impact, risk, and speed.
  • Influence and improve support practices by identifying friction, failure patterns, and opportunities for simplification.
  • Partner with managers and operations teams to shape tools, workflows, and metrics through hands-on experience and insight.
  • Act as a multiplier by sharing patterns, guidance, and best practices across teams and regions.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and Commercial teams to unblock customers and drive meaningful outcomes.
  • Represent Support in discussions related to architecture, integrations, security posture, and platform reliability.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in technical support or technical customer-facing roles within a SaaS environment, ideally supporting enterprise or high-growth customers.
  • Proven experience acting as a senior technical escalation owner in complex, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong technical fluency across APIs, webhooks, and authentication.
  • Strong technical fluency across Shopify APIs and ecommerce integrations.
  • Strong technical fluency across Domain management and security workflows.
  • Experience partnering effectively with Product and Engineering to influence outcomes without formal authority.
  • Comfort going hands-on with technical tools and data when needed (e.g. SQL, Postman, APIs, JSON), and the ability to guide others through complex investigations.
  • A track record of improving customer experience and operational effectiveness through better systems, processes, and standards.
  • Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills under pressure.
  • A proactive, pragmatic mindset with the confidence to lead through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary.
  • Stock options in a high-growth startup.
  • Competitive PTO with public holidays additional.
  • Private Health.
  • Pension.

Job title

Technical Support Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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