Technical Support Specialist
At a glance
Mid-level IT Support & Helpdesk role at Emerging Travel Group. Remote, Kazakhstan · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Investigate internal requests about hotel and room availability, aiming to resolve issues reflected in user satisfaction
- Trace availability drops, test possible causes, and track recovery across brands, partners, and suppliers
- Build technical and functional knowledge to resolve more issues directly and make necessary escalations clearer
- Work with Product on process and product improvements, including project coordination, documentation, and AI-based automation
What you bring
- You have worked in technical support, integrations, or IT operations
- You can investigate problems independently, use logs and monitoring data, and find or narrow down root causes
- You understand HTTP and APIs, can read JSON or XML, and can use basic SQL to check data
- You can explain issues to different audiences, document evidence for developers, and work in English at conversational B2 level
Who this fits
This remote role in Kazakhstan suits someone who plans their own work, sets priorities, and acts without ongoing close supervision. You’ll coordinate with internal users, developers, suppliers, Product, and other stakeholders.
From the employer
We are looking for a Technical Support Specialist!
Key responsibilities
1. Investigate technical requests from internal users related to hotel and room availability. Key metric: Valid CSAT.
2. Handle alerts related to drops in availability: analyze issues, develop and test hypotheses, and monitor progress toward restoring availability metrics. Key metric: Hotel and room availability rates by brand, partner, and supplier.
3. Reduce the workload of Development and QA teams by continuously deepening technical and functional expertise.Key metric: Percentage and quality of escalations.
4. Contribute to building and optimizing internal processes and improving the product. This includes regular meetings with the Product team, managing projects, creating and maintaining documentation, developing AI-powered automations, and other process improvement initiatives.
Requirements
1. Experience in technical support, integrations, or IT operations.
2. Autonomy and proactivity are key requirements for this role. There is no constant micromanagement within the team. The specialist is expected to plan their work independently, set priorities, respond to changing circumstances, and proactively initiate necessary actions.
3. Ability to independently investigate technical issues by collecting data, formulating and testing hypotheses, identifying root causes, or isolating the source of a problem.
4. Experience working with logs, monitoring tools, and metrics. Experience with Grafana is a plus.
5. Understanding of HTTP/API concepts, response codes, requests and responses, and the ability to read and interpret JSON/XML.
6. Basic SQL skills for independently querying and validating data.
7. Ability to escalate issues to Development effectively by clearly documenting symptoms, business impact, troubleshooting steps, and collected evidence.
8. Strong communication skills, including the ability to facilitate calls with developers, internal users, suppliers, and stakeholders, adapting explanations to the audience.
9. Conversational English at B2 level or equivalent practical proficiency for work-related calls and written communication.
10. Ability to document solutions and contribute to continuous process improvement.
Preferred skills
Experience in travel or e-commerce, external integrations support, automation, and the use of AI tools would be a great plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work remotely.
- Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
- Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
- Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
- Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
- MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
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