In-office locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): California, USA; New York, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in technical writing, product documentation, or online publishing (e.g., writing technical customer-facing materials or online content).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in writing, engineering, or scientific-related field.
- 4 years of experience leading projects, initiatives, or teams.
- 3 years of technical writing experience.
About the job
Technical writers plan, create, and maintain educational content as an integral part of the engineering or user experience. The content is often in the form of documentation, but may also be UI text, sample code, videos, or other educational material. Regardless of the content medium, technical writers are distinguished by their abilities to explain complex topics in a way that’s useful to their audience.
The goal of Payments Developer Relations is to drive excellent developer experience for Payments and Passes APIs. As a small but growing team within a fast-changing environment, we represent developer needs throughout the product life-cycle, including input on design, testing and post-launch updates. We write sample code, tutorials, code-labs to help educate and effectively implement Payments APIs and engage with the developers community through articles, videos and events.
Responsibilities
- Write technical documentation for our external developer audience, such as API reference documents and developer guides.
- Design and organize documentation sets for new APIs and developer products.
- Edit, clarify, and proofread documents written by others, and coach non-writers on ways to improve their writing skills.
- Contribute to development of other developer materials such as videos, codelabs, and blog posts.
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