Technical Writer - 3D Asset Pipelines & API Docs

Journey Live; Greater London; On-site; GBP 64,575 - 92,250; Part time

Job summary

Journey is seeking a specialized Technical Writer for a part-time freelance role to connect complex asset pipelines with user experience. You will translate 3D rendering pipelines, metadata schemas, API integrations, and secure portal access into clear documentation for developers and creatives.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, QA, and stakeholders to gather information, maintain Markdown docs, and create diagrams and standards for consistent, high-quality

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical writing experience in DAM, web apps, or SaaS.
• Strong understanding of 3D asset lifecycles, file formats, metadata, and creative workflows.
• Experience documenting portals, onboarding, permissions (RBAC), and SSO.
• Proficiency with Markdown, Git/GitHub, and headless CMS tools.
• Strong REST API, JSON, authentication, and web tech knowledge.
• Excellent written communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to interview stakeholders and synthesize information.

Responsibilities

• Produce functional specifications from discovery and implementation artifacts.
• Create and maintain developer docs, including REST APIs and integration guides.
• Write user-focused tutorials, FAQs, and knowledge base content.
• Document workflows for 3D asset ingestion, versioning, metadata tagging, and rendering pipelines.
• Document portal configuration, SSO, RBAC, and asset sharing protocols.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, designers, QA, and stakeholders.
• Maintain docs using Markdown with documentation-as-code practices.
• Create diagrams, workflow maps, wireframes, and process documentation.
• Establish documentation standards, templates, and reviews.

Skills

Technical writing

Docs-as-Code

Markdown

Git/GitHub

REST APIs

3D asset workflows

RBAC & SSO

Stakeholder interviewing

Education

Bachelor's degree in English, Computer Science, Visual Effects & 3D Animation, Information Architecture, or equivalent

Tools

ReadMe

GitBook

Confluence

Obsidian

MkDocs

Job description

Journey is seeking a specialized Technical Writer for a part-time freelance role to connect complex asset pipelines with user experience. You will translate 3D rendering pipelines, metadata schemas, API integrations, and secure portal access into clear documentation for developers and creatives.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, QA, and stakeholders to gather information, maintain Markdown docs, and create diagrams and standards for consistent, high-quality