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Technical Writer
Original posting
Deriv.com | Onsite (Malaysia) or Remote | Technical Writer | https://deriv.com/careers/
Description:
You will combine your excellent command of English and your strong understanding of the technology we use to produce well-structured, concise, and easy-to-understand technical documentation as well as project and architectural plans.
Responsibilities:
Develop an in-depth understanding of our products and services to condense information into simple, accurate, and polished documents tailored to their target audience.
Document our current and intended future systems and software architecture.
Produce coding standards, training manuals, and other technical documents for our Back-end, Front-end, Quants, Business Intelligence, and Quality Assurance teams as well as for the third-party developers who use our API.
Refine and polish engineer-generated documents and open source projects to imbue them with clarity and consistency.
Work with project managers to create detailed technical guidelines for achieving our short-term and long-term goals.
Generate documentation for our internal and public-facing APIs.
Identify and remedy content gaps and requirements to insert visual aids such as diagrams or videos to assist comprehension.
Set the standard for our technical documentation by creating a technical style guide that can be followed across the company.
Make sure that production and publication of content are technically accurate, well-written, and easily understandable.
Minimum qualifications:
Good fundamental knowledge of software development, preferably with the programming languages, platforms, and systems that we use, such as Perl, Python, PHP, C/C++, Go, Ruby, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
Familiarity with relational database design and/or open-source RDBMS systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
Good knowledge of Linux and other open-source platforms
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and excellent command of English
More than 3 years of experience in technical content creation