Senior Developer Content Writer
Slack- Full Time
- Posted : 3 years ago
TELECOMMUTE LOCATION: REMOTE
The Developer Relations Education team seeks a senior technical writer to compose documentation, tutorials, and other materials for our platform’s newest features and frequent evolutions. You’ll work with our product, design, and engineering teams to make api.slack.com a delightful learning experience.
Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?
What you will be doing
- Write, edit, and manage schedules for delightful long-form documentation, written in a mix of markdown & JSON
- Supervise and scale the collection and resolution of documentation feedback
- Regularly reinvent and revamp our existing extensive literature
- Improve the Slack developer experience by improving our custom CMS or by getting involved in API feature design
What you should have
- 3+ years experience in developer relations, developer support, and/or writing documentation for developer-focused software
- A background in programming in scripting languages like JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, Swift, etc.
- Strong writing and editorial skills
We also prefer but don’t require
- Experience developing against the Slack platform
- Familiarity with API specification formats like OpenAPI
- Creative writing background
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Skills
- CMS Development
- JSON
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby
- Swift
- Content Writing
- PHP
- Creative thinking
- Slack
- Editorial skils
- Written communication skill
- Problem Solving
- Time management
- API
- Content Development
- Adaptability
- Content Editing
- Programming skills in PHP
