Technical Writer

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

About the position

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. We are looking for a Technical Writer to join the team who can understand the technical details and can write documentation for developers interested in integrating with our APIs or SDKs. You will be part of our Payments development team, based in Chicago. Here, you will get familiar with and work on the payment industry's most advanced and robust platform.

Responsibilities

• Write technical documentation for our external developer audience, such as API reference docs and developer guides.
• Deliver clear and concise documentation in simple and easy-to-read English.
• Support design and layout.
• Conceptualize and help integrate solutions to automate and actively optimize our docs.
• Review, challenge and copy edit the content created by non-writers and drive best practices in technical writing with others.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in technical/developer documentation.
• Experience with docs-as-code (git, markdown).
• Ability to work together with developers and product managers to deliver quality documentation.
• Ability to write conceptual documentation, detailed integration guides, code samples, API reference, and other online materials in a clear and concise manner.
• Outspoken and likes to take ownership.
• Determined to influence content, drive the documentation strategy, user experience, and tooling.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing with programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, or others.
• Previous fintech experience.

Benefits

• Annual base salary range of $100,000 - $130,000.