Full-Time Senior Technical Writer
SquareSpace is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Technical Writer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Ireland based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We're looking for a Senior Technical Writer to define and deliver several transformative developer-facing documentation projects. This is a Senior role. As a member of a small Engineering Technical Writing team, you'll get to make a significant, recognised contribution to improving the Developer Experience at Squarespace.You’ll report directly to the Senior Manager for Technical Writing in Engineering.
You’ll Get To...
- Collaborate with software engineers and leaders, performing independent research to inform your work
- Create clear, accurate, consumable technical content including API documentation and developer guides for a software engineering audience
- Coach teams on documentation workflows and technical writing best practices
- Realise improvements to our practices and to our developer experience
- Build effective working relationships with engineers and leaders across R&D
- Begin leading 2-3 documentation projects, contributing content, and identifying future deliverables
- Begin creating your career development plan with your manager
- 7+ years of experience as a technical writer with a developer audience
- Experience delivering projects with a high level of technical complexity and broad scale
- You show an exemplary ability to write and converse in English
- You work as a peer to software engineers, using the same tools and development methodologies, including docs as code
- You're curious, learning new technical concepts and software products quickly
- You turn complex ideas in logical steps appropriate to the audience
- You work amazingly with remote and distributed teams
- You have a commitment to creating a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and trust