Team Lead, Customer Support - EMEA
Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source.
We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (20K stars on GitHub).
We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Fingerprint recruiting email communications will always come from the @fingerprint.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Fingerprint via other sources should be ignored.
We are seeking an experienced Support Engineer Team Lead based in Europe to lead and mentor a global team of Support Engineers. This role combines hands-on technical work, especially with JavaScript, browser behavior, APIs, and debugging, with operational leadership for a round-the-clock distributed support team.
The ideal candidate has previously led a high-performing technical support team in a high growth SaaS environment, excels in cross-functional communication, and brings a proactive approach to improving customer experience, tooling, workflows, and team capability.
You will partner closely with Support, Customer Success, Engineering, and Product to resolve complex issues, accelerate root-cause analysis, and ensure customers receive fast, accurate, and empathetic support.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & People Management
- Lead, coach, and develop a global team of Support Engineers across multiple time zones.
- Drive performance management, including 1:1s, development plans, skill assessments, and onboarding of new team members.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and customer-first thinking.
Technical Expertise & Escalation Ownership
- Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer issues involving JavaScript integrations, browser behavior, API usage, fraud identification workflows, and SDK implementations.
- Review and troubleshoot customer implementations; provide code-level guidance and clear reproduction steps.
- Collaborate with Engineering on bug triage, issue prioritization, and root-cause investigation.
- Maintain up-to-date expertise in Fingerprint's APIs, SDKs, webhooks, and integration patterns.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure SLAs, response times, and resolution targets are consistently met or exceeded globally.
- Own queue management, workload distribution, and process improvements that increase support efficiency.
- Build and refine playbooks, workflows, and troubleshooting frameworks to scale the team.
- Identify trends and recurring issues; deliver insights to Product & Engineering to drive systemic fixes.
Customer Experience & Communication
- Ensure every customer interaction reflects empathy, clarity, and accuracy.
- Escalate critical issues internally with comprehensive details and recommended next steps.
- Advocate for customer needs and work with cross-functional teams to improve product usability and documentation.
- Represent the Support organization in internal initiatives, cross-functional meetings, and customer touchpoints when needed.
Required Qualifications:
- 5-8 years of technical support, solutions engineering, or related experience in a SaaS, security, or developer-focused environment.
- 2–4+ years of experience leading or managing global technical support teams, ideally across EMEA, APAC, and North America.
- Strong JavaScript expertise, including debugging, browser APIs, network behavior, and integration patterns. SQL and log analysis knowledge is highly preferable.
- Proven success handling complex escalations and guiding teams through root-cause analysis.
- Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication approaches, and developer tooling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong operational mindset: metrics-driven, organized, and comfortable working in fast-scaling environments.
- Role requires proficiency with macOS and comfort working fully remotely using tools such as Slack, Google Workspace, and Zoom.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in fraud prevention, security, identity, or device intelligence ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience with Fingerprint or similar browser/device identification technologies.
- Familiarity with tools such as Zendesk, Jira, Linear, or equivalent customer support platforms.
- Background contributing to documentation, runbooks, and technical enablement.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote-first, globally distributed organization.
Location Preference: Remote, EMEA, Preference for candidates located in the UK area as travel may be required to visit clients on site.
Compensation & Transparency
We benchmark our compensation against other fast-growing companies and set ranges by level, role, and location to ensure fairness and transparency. Final offers may vary based on experience, expertise, and location.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Fingerprint recruiting email communications will always come from the @fingerprint.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Fingerprint via other sources should be ignored.
Offers vary depending on, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, certifications/licenses, skills, training, and market conditions.
Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.
We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.
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