Technical Writer

Technical Writer, London/Hybrid, 3 months, £400/day (Inside IR35)

One of my leading clients, a digital consultancy are currently looking to hire a Technical writer to join an end client of their in the health care space for an initial 3 month contract.

Responsibilities:

Proactively work with product teams and enginering teams to understand the services, products and processes that are being offered to developers, including:

Design principles and contribution opportunities

APIs, data models, micro-frontends and SDKs

On-boarding, usage and troubleshooting services

Development processes, constraints and guidance

Independently use/test platform services and assets to gain real working knowledge of how they work

Efficiently write/edit documentation for developers to serve the entire lifecycle of platform usage including:

Quick start / tutorials for prioritised developer jobs to be done

Developer how to guides for on-boarding, platform tool usage and development

Developer guides for contributing and using platform assets

Continuously improve dev ex assets based on testing and feedback with users

Work with product and engineering teams to improve service offerings

Optionally – develop developer experience tools to complement guides and tutorials

Skills required:

Strong writing skills (can be AI assisted) – must be able to produce good draft material very fast

• Knowledge and past experience of working on automated tech documentation generation tools like Backstage and their integration with Github, Google GCS; and knowledge of Confluence templates for piecing together appropriate documentation.