Job Description
Technical Writer, Docs Content
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Technical writers make Stripe products easy to use for developers and everyday users. Our documentation must exemplify quality and instill trust.
Stripe cares deeply about the experience of our users, from enterprise software developers to small business owners. Our products and internal tools require innovation and creativity to create an excellent user experience and to increase developer velocity. We need writers with excellent writing ability and solid technical competence to provide an engaging developer experience.
What you’ll do
You’ll join the Stripe Docs Content team to help users adopt our industry-leading technologies, and to help Stripe product teams ship exemplary documentation at docs.stripe.com.
Responsibilities
- Document Stripe products, including conceptual overviews, task-based guides, APIs, and tutorials for different products
- Maintain content quality through curation, user feedback, and content performance analysis
- Work alongside our developers, product teams, and support engineers to ensure content expertise and documentation accuracy
- Deliver results in a dynamic work environment with plenty of autonomy
- Push Stripe docs forward by dreaming up and implementing new ways to deliver, author, analyze, and interact with technical content
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 4+ years of technical writing experience
- Able to collaborate, partner with, and learn from other skilled tech writers
- Proficient in HTML and Markdown
- Conversant with Git and VSCode
- Adept at communicating technical concepts clearly and precisely
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with backend languages like Ruby, Go, Python, PHP, Node, or Java
- Experience with large information architecture projects
- Experience balancing multiple product launches
- Experience working with a team of technical writers
