Senior Technical Writer

Panhandle Apps is a 39-person software shop in Rutland. The founders still answer support tickets. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Job summary:

Panhandle Apps needs another Senior Technical Writer to make our developer docs accurate, findable and easy to follow. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

Day to day:

• Create diagrams and annotated screenshots with Snagit, draw or Figma.
• Document REST APIs from OpenAPI specs and verify examples against a test environment.
• Track documentation work in Jira alongside engineering tickets.
• Produce release notes for each product release.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of technical writing experience in software, hardware or a regulated industry.
• Bachelor's degree in English, communications, a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Writing samples showing technical documentation for different audiences.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON and tools like Postman or curl.
• Comfortable chasing busy engineers for answers.

What you get:

Compensation: $122,000 - $136,000 a year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid time off.
• Referral program.

Applications are reviewed as they come in.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Panhandle Apps.