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# Support Engineer at Avoca

- **Company:** Avoca
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/avoca/14d56dcc-65d0-430e-9ba9-d940b8f6444a

## Job description

## About Avoca

Avoca is transforming how home service companies engage with their customers. Our AI-powered conversational agents handle every high-value inbound call, from booking jobs, qualifying leads, and driving higher revenue, all at a speed and consistency unmatched by human call centers. We're a Series B startup backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, General Catalyst, and other top-tier investors, with $125M raised and a $1B valuation. We grew 10x in 2025 and have scaled to 130+ employees in under two years across our NYC headquarters and Santa Barbara office. In a $1T+ market where 85% of missed calls go to competitors, we're building the category-defining platform for AI-driven customer engagement, serving the largest brands in home services. With high-energy, in-office teams in both locations, every hire here has an immediate and visible impact.

## About the Role

Customers don't remember when things work, but they remember when things break and how fast you fix them. As a Support Engineer at Avoca, you're the person who makes that moment go well. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role. You'll own customer issues end-to-end: triaging incoming tickets, debugging production systems, reasoning through configuration and data flow, and driving problems to resolution, often without needing to hand anything off. You'll work across classification logic, pricing, scheduling, availability, prompt behavior, and other configurable layers of our platform, using internal tools and AI-assisted workflows to move fast. When issues reveal deeper product gaps, you'll partner with Solutions Engineers and Engineering to surface patterns and push fixes upstream. Your judgment directly shapes customer trust, product reliability, and our ability to scale.

## What You'll Do

- Debug independently by tracing system state, configuration, workflows, and data flow across production environments.
- Own support tickets from first response through confirmed resolution, no tossing over the fence.
- Diagnose issues spanning classification logic, pricing and fees, scheduling, objection handling, and other configurable behaviors.
- Use internal tooling and AI-assisted workflows to investigate and resolve issues efficiently.
- Maintain high operational rigor in triage, prioritization, and communication with customers.
- Surface recurring failure patterns that inform product and engineering improvements.

## What You'll Bring

- 3-6+ years in a technical, execution-heavy role: Support Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Implementation Engineer, or similar.
- Strong debugging instincts and comfort operating in production environments where you won't always have a playbook.
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, webhooks, and configuration-driven systems.
- The ability to reason through complex system behavior from first principles, not just follow runbooks.
- Clear, direct communication — you explain what happened, why, and what you did about it.
- A bias toward ownership. You'd rather solve the problem than route the ticket.

## Who You Are

- Self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and comfortable operating in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
- Thrives on owning processes end-to-end and balancing multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
- A proactive and effective communicator.
- You are collaborative, organized, and efficient.
- Eager to work in person at our NYC office full time.

## Benefits

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-sponsored 401(k) through Vestwell
- Flexible PTO plus U.S. federal holidays
- Company-wide off-sites
- Daily in-office lunch through Parkday
- Dinner covered when working late
- Commuter benefits and late-night rideshare
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Standing desks and workspace accommodations available on request
- All core tools and software provided

Compensation: The expected base salary for this role is $120,000-$150,000 with final compensation based on experience, skills, and qualifications determined during the interview process. Avoca’s total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a comprehensive suite of benefits and perks. Our Recruiting team will share the full details as you progress through our hiring process.

## Why Avoca

At Avoca, you’ll be part of a team that’s building a category-defining company at the center of a massive market opportunity. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team with a culture designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and impact.

Avoca provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

## About Avoca

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Avoca provides an AI-powered sales and front-office workforce that helps home service businesses answer calls, book jobs, and nurture leads 24/7.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY (Union Square)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales and customer engagement for service-based SMBs, specifically home services (HVAC, plumbing, roofing, etc.)
- **Target customers**: B2B – small-to-medium home service businesses, from single-location shops to multi-location enterprises
- **Mission/purpose**: To help home service pros win every job and grow on their own terms by building AI tools that work as hard as they do.

## Products & Services
- **[Avoca Responder](https://www.avoca.ai/)**: Always-on AI agent that answers every call, text, and chat, books jobs 24/7, and captures leads that would otherwise be missed.
- **[Avoca Coach](https://www.avoca.ai/)**: Scores every call, surfaces missed opportunities, and gives managers real-time visibility into team performance.
- **[Avoca Nurture](https://www.avoca.ai/)**: Multi-channel drip campaigns (SMS and calls) that re-engage past customers, send booking confirmations, and drive reviews.
- **Human-in-the-Loop**: Optional escalation to human team members for complex situations, ensuring high-quality customer experience.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,000 service leaders trust Avoca, and the company is growing to ~100 employees. (Source: [avoca.ai](https://www.avoca.ai/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2023 batch, primary partner Diana Hu) and “top investors” (not named publicly). (Source: [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avoca))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - A case study with Granite Comfort (PE-backed HVAC platform) showed 20% YoY revenue growth, 50%+ bookings end-to-end via AI, and consolidation of 9 contact centers into 1. (Source: [avoca.ai](https://www.avoca.ai/))
  - SOC 2 certified, deployed at scale across hundreds of home service front offices.
  - Team grew from 85 (YC profile) to ~100 (current careers page).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep vertical focus**: Purpose-built for the $1 trillion home services industry, not a generic AI assistant.
- **Voice-first AI**: Specializes in natural, conversational phone interactions that close deals, a notoriously hard problem.
- **End-to-end front office**: Combines inbound, outbound, coaching, and nurturing in one platform, reducing reliance on separate call centers and after-hours vendors.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 certified, with best-in-class data protection and compliance.

## Strategic Focus
- **Define the AI front office** for service businesses, expanding from inbound call handling to outbound marketing and coaching.
- **Scale multi-location deployments** – the Granite Comfort case shows ability to serve large, PE-backed platforms.
- **Continue product depth** in voice AI and customer intelligence to increase revenue capture for clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High trust, high ownership, customer-obsessed. The team talks to customers daily, visits their call centers, and attends industry conferences. “We have each other’s backs.”
- **Location**: In-office at Union Square, New York City. Lunch and dinner provided (free lunch daily, $30 dinner after 6:30 PM), transit and parking covered, Uber home on us.
- **Benefits**: 
  - Equity for all full-time employees.
  - Medical, vision, dental with multiple plan options, covered from day one.
  - Short- and long-term disability, life insurance fully covered.
  - 401(k) pre-tax or Roth from day one.
  - Flexible PTO (unlimited) plus 10 company holidays.
  - Paid parental leave.
  - Top-tier tools and equipment fully covered.
- **Growth**: 100 people and growing, backed by top investors, defining a new category in a massive industry.

## Sources
1. [avoca.ai/careers](https://www.avoca.ai/careers)
2. [avoca.ai/about](https://www.avoca.ai/about)
3. [avoca.ai](https://www.avoca.ai/)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/avoca](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avoca)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/avoca](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/avoca)

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