Solutions Engineer

Career Fulfillment & Culture

People come to work for Deque because of what we do: enable businesses and organizations to make their sites and apps accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. The personal fulfillment employees feel here is unparalleled. In addition to the altruistic nature of our jobs, the organizational structure is extremely flat and welcoming. Women-owned and operated, Deque CEO Preety Kumar is internationally revered for her down-to-earth personality and work ethic. Deque's core values are central to our culture of customer satisfaction. Do you share them?

• Innovation with results that matter
• Deliver what you promise
• Can-do attitude
• Open, direct & respectful communications
• We care deeply
• We practice humility

At Deque, you'll work with the best and brightest minds in the industry, sharing best practices, tackling new issues, and uncovering new approaches. Accessibility Consultants at Deque also love their jobs because of the support systems in place.

Deque experts regularly contribute to W3C Accessibility Working Groups and collectively hold more CPACC, WAS, & CPWA certifications issued by the IAAP than any accessibility testing company in the world.

Position Description

For our European customers, we are seeking an engaging self-starter with a love of technology to be our next Solutions Engineer. They should be problem-solvers, be comfortable with front-end UI technologies, and engage directly with customers to help deploy Deque solutions, and be capable of managing multiple customers in parallel. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer implementations, hands-on with UI and scripting technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and a very good understanding of the accessibility software domain and solutions. Ability to engage with customers to understand users, key players, their needs and goals, build custom solutions, and help execute a strategy to achieve customers' goals and expand business.

Primary Responsibilities

• Solutions Engineers at Deque Systems are the trusted advisors who provide Deque's first line of technology support to our customers.
• Provide world-class technology support of Deque solutions while working with customer implementation teams and Deque support and engineering teams to ensure successful implementations and adoption of Deque products.
• Develop a good understanding of your customer's accessibility objectives, use cases, project team members, and key players
• Work directly with users of Deque technology, identify and help them to be the subject matter experts and champions for Deque products within the customer organization through onboarding, training, knowledge-transfer, and assist with simple sample implementations or integrations of Deque products with customer solutions etc.
• Help customers understand the value of our products and solutions offerings as they develop and grow their accessibility programs
• Responsible for ensuring your customers are successfully able to use Deque products throughout their Deque accessibility journey
• Work and collaborate with Deque Customer Support, Product Management, and Saas and engineering teams to help solve customer issues/tickets, share product knowledge, and provide implementation assistance to ensure customer success.
• Understand and articulate opportunities to improve and optimize results of customer usage and implementation of Deque products, and help build business cases for further investment for upsells and cross-sells.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency within Customer Success
• Deliver product demonstrations that directly address customer needs

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software development or implementation role
• At least 3 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role
• Professional language skills in at least 1 of the French or German languages besides English
• Deep understanding of UI (web and mobile), front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc).
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipeline components and SaaS
• Experience with UI test automation frameworks
• Good understanding of SDLC and its components
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proven track record of working with various players in the customer organization to understand and solve problems and deliver desired results
• Good understanding of the accessibility software domain and customers' needs
• Ability to work on multiple customer projects concurrently
• Based in Spain
• Travel up to 30%

About Deque

Deque (pronounced dee-cue) is a web accessibility software and services company, and our mission is Digital Equality. We believe everyone, regardless of their ability, should have equal access to the information, services, applications, and everything else on the web.
We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. With over 475,000 extensions installed and over 5,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard. Join our growing family as we work to make the web a better place for everyone.

Job Location

• Remote

How to Apply

• Apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

In your cover letter

• Explain your interest in joining Deque and how you align with our Core Values
• Depict key attributes that differentiate you as a candidate

Deque is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Reference and background checks will be required.


Thank you for your interest in joining our exciting company!