Job Description
Title: Technical Writer, API Documentation
Location: Remote – United States
Branch is on a mission to help working Americans grow financially. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and empower working Americans with accessible, fee-free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive and transparent financial products.
Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. Our mission starts with empowering our own employees. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a team member at Branch, your voice and creativity can directly impact the product and company. We not only attract great talent from across the country, but also build teams to help that talent to thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to discuss the technologies and workflows to create world-class API product documentation
- Work with code as documentation’ tools like Docusaurus, OpenAPI to create, format and publish online forms of API documentation, examples and solutions
- Participate in assessing and proposing software and methods to continuously improve our documentation processes.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience.
- Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear, comprehensive, developer-focused documentation.
- Excellent information architecture and information design skills.
- Experience using GitHub, open-source development, Markdown, static site generators (Docusaurus, Swagger), web content.
- Experience reading code and documentation annotations in Java.
- A degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related experience.
Benefits:
- Remote-first work culture (domestic USA)
- Branch-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Equity
- 401k
- Paid time off
- Paid company holidays
Working at Branch
Headquartered in Minneapolis but with employees located all throughout the US, Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together.