Technical Author (multiple roles and seniority levels)
jobgether
UK
Full-time
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Accountabilities:
- Create, maintain, and continuously improve high-quality technical documentation across software products, internal systems, or business operations depending on team placement.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure documentation accurately reflects system functionality and user needs.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, structured, and accessible content for diverse audiences.
- Contribute to shaping documentation standards, style guides, and best practices across teams and products.
- Engage with users and communities to understand real-world usage and improve documentation relevance and usability.
- Support and encourage documentation contributions from engineers and cross-functional team members.
- Participate in the evolution of documentation practices using structured methodologies such as Diátaxis.
- Help advance documentation as a core discipline within both product development and organizational communication.
Requirements
- Strong experience in technical writing, software documentation, or engineering-adjacent roles with a focus on clear communication.
- Background in software development or strong familiarity with engineering environments, tools, and workflows.
- Ability to understand and explain complex technical systems, with strong analytical and structured thinking skills.
- Excellent written communication skills with a strong attention to clarity, precision, and consistency.
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product, or open-source communities.
- Familiarity with tools and workflows such as Linux, Git, command-line environments, or documentation frameworks (e.g., Sphinx, reStructuredText).
- Strong curiosity for technology and willingness to learn new domains and systems.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in distributed, fast-paced environments.
- Bonus: experience in open-source contributions, UX writing, or technical community leadership.
Benefits
- Fully remote working model with global collaboration opportunities.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based annual adjustments and bonuses.
- Annual learning and development budget to support professional growth.
- Regular international in-person team gatherings and collaborative sprints.
- Flexible annual leave and comprehensive parental leave policies.
- Employee assistance and wellbeing support programs.
- Opportunities to contribute to open-source documentation practices at scale.
- Travel support and benefits for company-wide events and meetups.
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