Junior Technical Writer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

We are looking for a Junior Technical Writer whose passion is helping developers be successful. We are aggressively growing the Square Developers team as we expand Square’s commerce platform and engage the broader developer community.

We consider documentation an integrated product that is as critical to developer success as our APIs. The Technical Writing team helps set our documentation strategy in partnership with Design and the Experience Engineering team. Our goal is to make documentation an interactive experience that educates, informs, and guides developers building on our platform.

Come help developers succeed with Square!

You will:

  • Write clear, concise, and human documentation for Square’s external developer audience.

  • Develop code samples and interactive tutorials to help developers get up to speed quickly.

  • Work cross-functionally with our product teams, other engineering teams, and partner developers in the delivery of Square’s commerce platform.

Qualifications

 

  • Proficient writing in English.

  • Comfortable working crossfunctionaly with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to help document new developer products and features.

  • Comfortable writing in Markdown.

  • Comfortable navigating and reading source code in a variety of languages.

  • Comfortable working with the Linux command line in a Macintosh environment.

  • Comfortable working in a semi-structured writing environment with evolving processes and homegrown systems.

  • Familiarity with version control systems.

  • Willing to write coding examples at least one of: PHP, Ruby, .NET, Python, Java, C#, Swift/Objective-C — and the desire to gain experience with more.

Additional information:

This role is open to applicants available to work in:

  • San Francisco, CA

Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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