About Akvelon
🌎Akvelon is an American company with offices in Seattle, Mexico, Ukraine, Poland, and Serbia. Our company is an official vendor of Microsoft and Google. Our clients also include Amazon, Evernote, Intel, HP, Reddit, Pinterest, AT&T, T-Mobile, Starbucks, and LinkedIn. To work with Akvelon means to be connected with the best and brightest engineering teams from around the globe and working with an actual technology stack building Enterprise, CRM, LOB, Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Cross-Platform, Mobile, and other types of applications customized to client’s needs and processes.
Client is a leading technology company that has been transforming the way people work, play. The company is committed to creating technology that empowers people and organizations around the world to achieve more. With cutting-edge products and services, they help customers stay ahead of the competition and realize their potential.
We are looking for 2 Middle Technical Writers and 1 Senior Technical Writer. The Senior Spesialist will be also responsible organizing teamwork (intake, progress reporting, etc).
Responsibilities
🔸Re-write and migrate existing content to Engineering Hub;
🔸Create new and update Engineering Hub articles;
🔸Design, approve and follow strict rules on writing documentation;
🔸Following one unified style for all content: grammar, language structure, format, vocabulary need to be consistent. All existing pages need to be rewritten using this unified style;
🔸Existing content needs to be modified into this new style. TW needs to read and understand existing article before modifying – if it doesn’t make sense, it needs to be re-written;
🔸Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detailTarget Audience: junior developers. We should use simple and clear language;
🔸Acceptance criteria for the articles should be designed.
Requirements
🔸Experience in writing technical documentation for international projects:
- For Sr TW: 5+ years technical writing work experience required.
- For Mid TW: 3+ years technical writing work experience required.
🔸For Sr TW: Experience leading / mentoring other tech writers;
🔸For Sr TW: Experience in organizing and overseeing the processes of writing technical documentation in big international projects;
🔸Excellent technical writing skills required;
🔸Highly proficient in English (C1+);
🔸Experience with Markdown and HTML/CSS;
🔸Expert understanding of one or more major technologies, such as database design and development, networking, client/server applications, security, multimedia, or device drivers, etc;
🔸The ability to read or write a high-level programming language is required;
🔸emonstrated interest in, and knowledge of, broad but related areas of technology. The ability to be proactive in solving problems is required.
Nice to have
🔸Understanding the principles of high quality software development;
🔸Knowledge of cloud computing;
🔸Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
Overlap time requirements
🔸1 hour sync requirement daily during morning PST time zone work hours;
🔸1-2 hours overlap with Redmond biz hours is sufficient.
Working Conditions and Benefits
🔸Paid vacation and sick leave (without requiring a sickness list);
🔸Health insurance;
🔸Official state holidays — 11 days considered public holidays;
🔸Opportunities for professional growth through challenging projects and the possibility to switch roles, master new technologies, and improve skills with company support;
🔸Flexible working schedule: 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week, with 2-3 hours of overlap with PST;
🔸Personal Career Development Plan (CDP);
🔸Employee support program (Discounts, Care, Health, Legal compensation);
🔸Paid external training, conferences, and professional certification aligned with the company’s business goals;
🔸Internal workshops and seminars;
🔸Corporate library (paper and e-books) and internal English classes.
If you are a motivated and talented Technical Writer seeking a challenging opportunity with a global technology company, this position is perfect for you.
