Technical Support Engineer

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.

In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.

Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.

Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.

Podium is seeking the next candidate to join our amazing Technical Support Engineer team. The Technical Support Engineer is a critically important role for Podium as we continually develop products and scale our customer service offerings. Sitting within our engineering department, your primary responsibilities are to own specific products from a technical perspective, troubleshoot, identify, and resolve issues by pushing bug fixes, and effectively reporting feedback and feature requests to the product team - the true 360-degree company expert in the given product(s).

You will work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Support, Customer Success, Onboarding, and other engineers to ensure we provide the highest level of service and resolution to our customers, aligned with the goals of being the overall Voice of the Customer at the company, optimizing processes, maximizing net retention, and fixing bugs.

The ideal candidate thrives on helping local businesses solve their problems, drives innovation, and is confident in ambiguity. While this role is not purely customer-facing in nature, you will be involved in escalations and resolution, and will join customer meetings when appropriate. Technical Support Engineers will report directly to the Technical Support Manager.

What You Will Do:

• Troubleshoot, document & resolve bugs by using AI to create and merge PRs
• Serve as a point of escalation, vetting the legitimacy of product-related issues from our customers
• Develop a system for feedback loops in close collaboration with the Product team
• Create internal documentation of our products and processes
• Maintain open communication channels within the broader Customer Success department and Product teams
• Serve as the Voice of the Customer, socializing organized qualitative and quantitative data to cross-functional partners to improve our products
• Work cross-functionally with Podium teams on various ad-hoc initiatives to enhance the customer experience
• Resolve escalated cases promptly while holding Product, Engineering and yourself accountable to established Service Level Agreements

What You Should Have:

• A customer-first mindset with strong empathy and ownership
• 1-3 years of experience in technical or product support roles
• Ability to drive innovation, improve processes, and thrive in an unstructured or rapidly changing environment
• An AI power user, you are comfortable working with multiple agents at once and are excited for AI's future
• Familiarity with modern web technologies (APIs, web services, JSON), and comfort with scripting or debugging tools.
• Strong analytical and data-driven problem-solving skills
• Experience managing and triaging customer issues, feature requests, or product-related escalations
• Proactive approach to identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and improving team workflows

Benefits:

• Open and transparent culture 
• Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k Plan
• Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel 
• A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
• Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center, subsidized for employees

Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or veteran status.