Write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions. May assist in layout work.
Technical Writer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Technical Writer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Continuously improve online developer training;
- Developer documentation for Corda and Corda Enterprise;
- Overall content strategy to influence the thinking and approaches used by our developer and IT professional audiences;
- Lead content editing for the Corda blog;
- Subject matter expert for deployment and operations documentation for Corda and Corda Enterprise;
- Mentoring more junior peers so they can make meaningful and timely contributions to the Corda and Corda Enterprise documentation;
- Own the localisation process for relevant documentation;
- Examples of documentation you will produce are: user guides, API documentation, deployment guides and performance tuning guides;
- Be comfortable working on multiple documentation projects in parallel, and produce high quality deliverables on time and in a predictable manner.
Requirements:
- Enjoy working in an open, collaborative style both in management and cross-functional working and have a positive, solution-focused approach;
- A self-motivated individual with an analytical mindset, an inquisitive nature and with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills;
- Have a proven track record of translating technical subjects and jargon into understandable text;
- At least 2 years’ experience as a Technical Author/ Technical Writer in an agile software organisation (ideally with both mobile/web products);
- Familiarity with the software development process is a plus;
- Excellent communication skills, showing consistency, clarity, and a strong attention to detail;
- 5+ years of technical writing experience;
- Experience using multiple authoring tools;
- Demonstrated ability to write clearly and with grammatical accuracy;
- Familiarity with software development processes;
- Bachelor’s degree;
- Experience in Markdown, Git or Swagger is a plus;
- Ability to proactively identify documentation gaps, and work to address them;
- Familiarity with producing online (web-based) API documentation is a plus;
- Experience interviewing experts such as software developers to elicit essential content.