Support Engineering Team Lead

Textkernel’s business is simple: make more and better matches between people and jobs. How? By utilizing machine intelligence techniques coupled with a talented and ambitious team. Our dynamically growing company is currently servicing thousands of clients worldwide by optimizing and automating their recruitment activities. Our software is provided as a SaaS solution and we are working with a lot of the biggest names in the industry.

We are looking for a Team Lead for our Application Support Team. In this role you will set the standard for best-in-class customer support. You will realize this by managing and motivating a team of support engineers on a daily basis, and by delivering hands-on customer support yourself.

What you will be doing:

• Have full commitment to satisfying our customers.
• Set clear, challenging but realistic customer support goals and motivate the team to reach those goals.
• Oversee day-to-day operation, delegate tasks and set deadlines.
• Deliver hands-on customer support.
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
• Coach the support engineers, in the areas of technical, functional and professional growth.

What we expect from you:

• A background (hands-on) in technical software support, experience with Linux, and web services (SOAP, REST, HTTP).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Organizational, administrative and time-management skills.
• Thorough understanding of technology and software systems.
• Qualification and priority-setting skills.
• Dedication to improving processes and products.
• Proven traits and experiences as a team leader or supervisor of a software support team.
• Excellent command of English.

What you'd like to see in your new job:

• A fair salary
• A yearly bonus based on your and the company's performance.
• Joining a fast growing, motivated and international team that consists of more than 37 nationalities
• 28 days of holiday leave.
• Holiday allowance and participation in a solid pension plan.
• Hybrid working
• Travel allowance and compensation for your internet costs at home.
• A home office allowance to create a suitable workplace at home.
• A place at our comfortable and brand new office in Amsterdam Noord, with free quality lunches, snacks and drinks: whatever you fancy, our kitchen has it all!
• Participating in our yearly week-long company wide hackathon (Innovation Week) but also joining meet-ups, training courses, scientific conferences and team/company trips.

About us

Textkernel is widely regarded as the international leader in providing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Semantic Technology that empowers organizations to optimally understand, connect and analyze all their data around people and jobs. We enable thousands of recruitment & staffing agencies, employers, job boards, HR software vendors and outplacement & redeployment agencies worldwide to work smarter and more effectively by creating efficiencies in the HR and recruitment process.

Textkernel is headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in Frankfurt, Paris, Enschede, Eindhoven and teams in the US and the UK. As a group we are currently around 250 strong. We are small enough to make you matter but big enough to have a very recognizable impact on the market, supported by solid infrastructure.

Recruitment process

For this position it starts with an intake call with one of our talent partners. Afterwards we will plan a role alignment interview with the Operations Manager. Next you'll spend some time working on an assignment and we will discuss this during the final interview with our COO and Operations Manager. In general this recruitment process will take about 3 weeks from the intake call onwards.