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Developer Support Analyst

Role overview

Summary

The Developer Support Analyst role at FBS focuses on assisting clients with API integration and legacy product support. This position is part of the Quality Engineering team, which aims to enhance the usability of FBS's API solutions while maintaining support for existing data feeds during a significant transition in the real estate industry.

Qualifications

  • Superb verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs.
  • Associates Degree or equivalent professional technical experience.
  • Great organizational skills and the ability to keep on task with minimal supervision.
  • Ability to work core hours of 9:00am to 5:00pm Central Time.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and resolve developer questions regarding API authentication and integration.
  • Escalate problems to other internal teams when solutions require software or data configuration changes.
  • Act as a primary point of contact for MLS clients in configuring their APIs and answering questions.
  • Engage with product and development teams to provide product feedback and help shape the future of our APIs.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Organizational Skills

About the company

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FBS

  • Software / SaaS
  • 51–200
FBS is the leading innovator of Multiple Listing Service (MLS) technology. Fargo, ND based and 100% employee-owned, FBS is dedicated to providing powerful and innovative products with responsive, personal service. The Flexmls® Platform (mobile + web + IDX), delivers ultimate customization and flexibility to 305,000+ on-the-go real estate subscribers. Spark®, the industry’s first standards-driven and most widely used Web API, and the FlōPlan® System, easy and affordable floor plans generated by a simple smartphone scan, round out a family of products that put MLSs, brokers, and agents in full control of their data and brand. FBS further differentiates itself with unrivaled customer service: nearly 100% client retention, the highest client and user satisfaction, and one of the highest sustained Net Promoter Score® (NPS) scores in any industry (84+).

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Job description

Here at FBS, our software products drive our success. In fact, we’re one of the top three vendors in the world for MLS software and growing fast. Hiring the best and the brightest means we pay competitively, have strong healthcare benefits, provide a professional-yet-casual, resource-rich working environment (both local and remote) and enjoy the freedom to be individuals who work together towards common goals. Your peers aren’t co-workers, they’re owners; FBS is 100% employee owned. That means each employee-owner earns company stock in addition to their salaries for maintaining the company’s growth and success.

FBS is looking for a Developer Support Analyst to join our Quality Engineering team! The Developer Support Analyst works as part of a hybrid engineering and support team on the cutting edge of the real estate industry’s transition from legacy architecture to modern, API-powered products. Our focus is to make the API solutions that FBS offers both effective and simple to use while also supporting our legacy data feeds during this transitionary period.

What you'll do:

  • Troubleshoot and resolve developer questions via email or phone regarding API authentication and integration.
  • Escalate problems to other internal teams when solutions require software or data configuration changes.
  • Act as a primary point of contact for our MLS clients in configuring their APIs and answering questions.
  • Act as a primary point of contact for our MLS clients utilizing our RETS legacy product and answering questions.
  • Engage with product and development teams to provide product feedback and help shape the future of our APIs.
  • Communicate complex technical challenges and solutions to the non-technical segments of our client base.
  • Submit clearly articulated bug tickets for the development team, keep customers updated on their progress, and see these issues through to resolution.
  • Identify common questions and concerns and create user facing documentation to address them.
  • Keep internal documentation and technical process outlines up to date.

What you'll need to be successful:

  • Superb verbal and written communication skills.
  • Great organizational skills and the ability to keep on task with minimal supervision.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs.
  • Associates Degree or equivalent professional technical experience.
  • Ability to work core hours of 9:00am to 5:00pm Central Time.

Ideal candidates will possess:

  • Familiarity with a scripting language (such as PHP or Ruby).
  • Ability to read log files, use data visualization tools and browser developer tools.
  • A comprehensive understanding of the real estate transaction and data lifecycle (e.g., as a realtor, broker or long-time industry professional) combined with 1+ years of technical support or API integration experience in any industry.

Salary Range: $51,000-65,000 per year, based on 2,080 hours.

At FBS, you get entrepreneurial energy, innovation and big thinking: deadlines to beat, challenges to conquer, and emerging technology to chase without the volatility, uncertainty and risk of a start-up. As an owner at FBS, you actually do get out what you’ve put in. If you are looking for a place where your creativity, knowledge and expertise will be appreciated and rewarded in a team of passionate, intelligent, and fun teammates, we encourage you to apply.

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