Senior Technical Writer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Poplarset employs 7,300 people across engineering hubs in Düsseldorf and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Overview:

Looking for a Senior Technical Writer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Our Engineering team is two writers supporting six product teams. Expect to manage your own priorities. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD.

Key responsibilities:

• Document REST APIs from OpenAPI specs and verify examples against a test environment.
• Edit documentation written by engineers for clarity and consistency.
• Produce release notes for each product release.
• Build and maintain a style guide and templates.
• Review analytics and search queries to find gaps in the docs.
• Maintain docs-as-code workflows in Markdown, Git and static site generators like Docusaurus or MkDocs.
• Interview engineers and subject matter experts to collect technical details.

Minimum qualifications:

• Ability to read basic code in Python, JavaScript or Java.
• Bachelor's degree in English, communications, a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on use of a help authoring tool or CMS.
• Writing samples showing technical documentation for different audiences.
• Strong grasp of grammar, structure and plain-language writing.
• Comfortable chasing busy engineers for answers.
• Experience with Markdown and Git-based workflows.

Pay: €300 - €375/day

Perks and benefits:

• Company laptop.
• Monthly internet allowance.

Candidates must be eligible to work in France.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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