Technical Writer - API Documentation

Technical Writer - API Documentation: Write API documentation, review and suggest changes, develop code, and use various content types to simplify user understanding of Open APIs.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in computer science, technical writing, core sciences or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 6+ years' experience in technical documentation, and/or developer outreach/technology partner management roles
• Knowledge of tools such as Jekyll, Wordpress, Adobe Framemaker, Oxygen XML author, Lucid Chart, Visio
• Experience using Git to manage asynchronous collaboration across large teams
• Experience with authoring documentation in Markdown
• Familiarity with API documentation tools such as Swagger
• Knowledge of REST APIs
• Experience with programming to enable sample code, especially around core web technologies such as Python/Javascript/JSON/HTML
• Knowledge of data analytics and big data technologies (plus)
• Great communication skills and ability to work well with others
• Ability to organize and create multimedia content to explain use cases and process flows
• Ability to handle stressful, time-critical projects and deliver great user outcomes