Application Support Engineer

We are seeking a Bilingual Japanese Application Support Engineer someone who is responsible for delivering proficient technical support in both languages to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and issue resolution across language barriers. Their role involves supporting the customer inquiries, managing account registration, and troubleshooting application issues. Additionally, they are tasked with providing comprehensive documents such as technical and operational/customer manuals. This role requires a strong customer service mindset, the ability to analyze systems, and customer needs and plans to provide specialized business solutions and make recommendations to improve efficiency. 



Client (type/ industry): IT Solutions branch of a major Japanese company

• Working Location: Remote (Farmington Hills, MI)
• Employment Type: Contract
• Salary: Up to $23-30/h
• Working Hours: There’s two shifts. Shift 1 is 8:00am - 5:00pm and Shift 2 is 11:00am – 8:00pm (Monday – Friday). Some amount of flex time, overtime, or scheduled weekend work will also be required to meet business needs.
• Benefit: Full Benefits
• VISA support: NO/ United States (Required)
• Language: English, Japanese

• Respond promptly to customer inquiries
• Manage customer inquiries and maintain organized record in the ticketing system.
• Provide technical support for incoming queries and issues related to applications supported by the team, by troubleshooting, diagnosing causes, and providing solutions.
• Manage customer accounts daily and ensure data accuracy.
• Organize workflow to meet customer timeframes
• Direct requests and unresolved issues to the designated resource
• Follow up on customer interactions
• Record details of inquiries, comments and complaints
• Record details of actions taken
• Prepare and distribute customer activity reports
• Maintain customer databases
• Communicate and coordinate with internal departments
• Provide feedback on the efficiency of the customer service process
• Translate system and application document in both English and Japanese.
• Consistent availability to work in an office environment.
• Collaborate with team members to provide support to customers.

• Act with integrity and professionalism.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Problem Solving/Analysis skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Should be a good team player.
• Proficiency in document management.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field
• Bilingual with Japanese-English
• 1-2 years’ experience in IT support or related field.
• Basic computer skills
• Microsoft Outlook/E-mail capability
• MS-Office Capability (Word, Excel and Power-point etc)
• Prior experience in troubleshooting technical issues
• Experience with server such as Linux and Windows is plus
• Having automotive R&D knowledge is plus
• Knowledge/hands-on experience on IT networking and scripting is plus

• Medical health insurance (including dental and vision)

• Competitive paid time off and company paid holidays
• Comp time for holidays worked
• 401k matching program
• Company profit sharing
• Merit increases and bonus structure
• Professional development and education reimbursement