Technical Support Manager

Location - Remote (UK-based) 
Reports to[CTO / Head of Engineering
 

About the Project:

It is a mobile accounting app for sole traders, freelancers and self-employed workers — income, expenses and tax handled from a phone in minutes rather than evenings.

Behind a simple app sits the complicated part: bank feeds that stop syncing, receipts that scan wrong, subscriptions that don't renew, a figure that's off by £40 and nobody can say why. That's your side of the house. When a user's tax number looks wrong, someone has to prove what actually happened — in the data, not in the conversation.

The job in one line

You are tier 2: everything customer support can't resolve stops with you, and everything Engineering shouldn't be interrupted by stops with you too.

What you'll do

- Own tier-2 escalations end to end. Take what front-line support can't close, investigate it properly and either fix it, work around it, or hand Engineering a ticket they can act on immediately. Target: [90%] of escalations resolved or reproduced within 1 working day.
- nvestigate in the data, not by guesswork. Read logs, trace requests, query the database (read-only SQL), check API responses and reconcile what the app displayed against what was actually recorded. Every escalation you pass on carries a clear reproduction path and evidence.
- Run bank feed and integration failures. Open Banking connections drop, banks change formats, tokens expire, third-party providers have outages. You own diagnosis, the vendor conversation, and the honest message to affected users.
- Triage mobile crashes and releases. Monitor crash and error reporting, spot regressions after a release before the reviews do, and verify fixes on real devices across iOS and Android versions.
- Own billing and store issues. Failed payments, App Store / Google Play subscription problems, duplicate charges, refunds, entitlement mismatches — resolve them and reconcile with Finance.
- Manage incidents. Be the person who declares one: assess impact, notify users and the team, keep the status page current, coordinate to resolution, then write the post-incident review with a root cause and actions that actually get done.
- Cut the ticket volume at source. Turn recurring escalations into permanent fixes: bug reports Engineering prioritises, product changes, internal diagnostic tooling, and written playbooks that let tier 1 handle the case themselves next time. Success looks like fewer escalations reaching you each quarter, not more.
- Handle deadline peaks. Late January Self Assessment, the 5 April year end and quarterly VAT/MTD deadlines turn every technical fault into an urgent one. Cover, monitoring and rollback plans get agreed before those windows, not during.
- Guard data and access. Verify identity before touching an account, work under UK GDPR with financial and personal data, keep production access to what your role requires, and escalate suspected security or data incidents immediately.

 What we're looking for

- 3+ years in technical support, application support or a tier-2/escalations role for a live software product — ideally consumer-facing.
- You can read a log, write a SQL SELECT, call an API endpoint with Postman / curl and inspect a JSON response without help.
- Practical experience with bug triage alongside an engineering team: severity, reproduction, prioritisation, verification.
- Experience with third-party integrations or API failures, and dealing directly with vendor support.
- Written English clear enough to explain a technical cause to a user in plain terms and to a developer in precise ones.
- Calm and methodical during outages — no panic, no guessing, no silence.
 

Nice to have

- Fintech, accounting, payroll or payments background — bank feeds, Open Banking, reconciliation, double entry.
- Mobile support experience: crash reporting, device fragmentation, store release cycles, RevenueCat or similar subscription tooling.
- Scripting for diagnostics or reporting (Python / SQL / Bash).
- Experience setting up monitoring, alerting or an internal admin/diagnostic tool.
- Any incident-management framework in practice, on-call rotations, blameless post-mortems).

What we offer

- £20 000 plus a bonus.
- A function you own and build, with the tooling budget and production access to do it properly.
- Remote  working with core hours 09:00–18:00 UK. On-call is limited to release windows and tax-deadline peaks, compensated at rate.
- Annual leave plus UK bank holidays, with peak-season cover agreed in advance.
- Direct line to Engineering — your bug reports go into the sprint, not into a backlog nobody reads.
- Tools and training funded, including certifications relevant to the role.

*Rapidum is an equal opportunities employer. We assess every application against the requirements above and nothing else.*