We are looking for a Technical Writer with experience in software documentation, blog content, and other forms of external communication. The ideal candidate is a native English speaker, and has at least two years of experience in the tech writing space.

You’ll be the first hire on the newly formed developer relations team and will report to our Director of Developer Relations, Fred. Our mission is to help developers be successful by nurturing a healthy and welcoming community around the Mindee ecosystem. This means listening to, inspiring, educating, and supporting our community however we can.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to help developers be successful by giving them access to clear and informative documentation: documentation that you will own. We need someone who is excited to write blog articles, technical tutorials and connect with our community to understand how we can improve our education material. You’ll have the space to be creative and an opportunity to grow your personal brand.

We are a remote-friendly organization, with offices in Paris and San Francisco. For this particular position, the role is completely remote, but we will be looking at profiles working in GMT-1 to GMT-7 time zones only. You’ll have flexible working hours, but we need overlaps for meetings.

What’s you’ll be doing

• Documenting aspects of our platform and API
• Coming up with ideas for and writing blog posts centered around topics like Mindee, computer vision, machine learning or anything of interest for developers
• Write technical tutorials about Mindee, our API and our SDKs
• Working closely with the Product team
• In your capacity as a writer and native English speaker, providing feedback on text-based content created by others

If you want, you will also have the opportunity to speak at conferences and meetups. It is not required for this role, but highly encouraged.

Benefits of working at Mindee

• Fully remote
• Flexible schedule
• Medical Insurances
• Generous vacations
• Stock options
• In a startup, you can have a real impact: you are not just a number!
• Weekly team mingle and game playing (during working hours)
• Yearly company offsite in Europe

Soft Skills

Your fit with our team is as important to us as your developer focused writing expertise and technical background, if not more so. We are looking for someone with these important soft skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication: in prior experiences, you’ve demonstrated ability to teach software developers through clear and accurate written content
• Constructive mindset (gives and takes feedback well)
• Team player
• Curious, self-motivated learner
• Independent (we don’t do micromanagement), with good time management and prioritization skills

Hard Skills

Must-have

• Experience writing for a software developer audience
• Notable experience with open-source, personal and/or professional
• Ability to comprehend difficult technical subjects and condense them for a non-technical audience
• Superb attention to detail
• Impeccable written English

Nice to have

• Experience with API first product
• Interest in software development actuality and latest trends
• Enjoys helping non-native speakers to perfect themselves with a new language

Please send us your resume as a PDF and a quick note of why you might be a good fit for this job, along with examples of content you wrote and have the right to share with us.

1. If your profile fits, you will have a 30 minutes call with an HR representative.
2. If we feel we need to better assess your technical writing skills, we will give you a paid home assignment.
3. If the interest to move forward is mutual, the next step is meeting the hiring manager, Fred, in a one-hour video discussion.
4. Finally, you will meet with our COO for 30 minutes, followed by another 30 minutes call with our CEO.
5. If everything goes well, you will receive an offer from us within five business days.

Please note that at any steps, if your profile doesn’t fit or if we decide not to move forward, you will get an email from us.