Senior Technical Writer — Remote, Docs-Driven Product

Runtime; United States; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days holiday

Private Healthcare

Private Dental & Vision

Remote Working

Flexi-Time

Extended Paternity / Maternity Leave

Home-Office Set-Up Allowance

Job summary

Runtime is hiring a Technical Writer to join their documentation team. You’ll own documentation for specific product areas, working directly with engineers to understand features before they ship and write guides for a developer audience.

You’ll review contributions, manage the product changelog, and partner with product, customer success and sales to improve docs. Remote-friendly across the UK & Ireland with a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical writing, ideally for software developers.
• Comfortable with docs-as-code, Markdown, HTML and git-based workflows.
• Working familiarity with package managers, registries or DevOps tooling (npm, Docker, Maven, Terraform or similar).
• Clear, precise communicator who keeps asking engineers 'why' until it clicks.

Responsibilities

• Own documentation for specific product areas, working with engineers to understand features before they ship.
• Write guides and best-practice content for a developer audience.
• Review and publish contributions from others, and manage the product changelog.
• Partner with product, customer success and sales to spot where docs fall short and fix them.
• Prioritise your own content backlog: what's now, next and later.

Skills

Technical writing

Content strategy

Clear communication

Developer audience

Tools

Markdown

HTML

Git

npm

Docker

Maven

Terraform

Job description

Runtime is hiring a Technical Writer to join their documentation team. You’ll own documentation for specific product areas, working directly with engineers to understand features before they ship and write guides for a developer audience.

You’ll review contributions, manage the product changelog, and partner with product, customer success and sales to improve docs. Remote-friendly across the UK & Ireland with a fast-growing environment.