Software Engineer / Writer

Jane Street Group, LLC; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street Group, LLC seeks a writer-who-codes or programmer-who-writes to contribute to documentation and tooling around docs, while developing training materials and long-form content. You may embed with engineering to understand the codebase and write practical examples.

The role emphasizes strong writing with enough programming skill to explore tutorials and contribute to internal and external materials, including blogs and talks.

Qualifications

• Excellent writing ability with ability to produce tutorials, docs, and blog content.
• Ability to navigate codebase and understand tutorials.
• OCaml, functional programming, or finance experience not required.

Responsibilities

• Document code and write high-quality docs to raise overall project quality.
• Build tools that support automated or enhanced documentation.
• Develop training materials and improve internal bootcamps and teach-ins.
• Write tutorials, internal handbook chapters, blog posts, podcasts, and conference content.

Skills

Excellent writing

Programming skills

Job description

We're looking to hire a programmer-who-writes, or a writer-who-codes.

Here are the kinds of things we’d like to have this person work on:

• Documentation. We’ve always believed that developers should spend time and effort documenting their own code, but at the same time, a great writer with a feel for the technology can raise the level of quality in a way that few developers can. Establishing a culture of great docs is especially important as we grow.
• Building tools that support documentation. So much documentation is auto-generated by our systems, whether as error messages, logs, automated emails, or library docstrings. Getting your hands dirty hacking on documentation-adjacent tools will help not just to a first order, but will also make your other writing more effective.
• Training material. We have a ton of programs that new and experienced hires go through, ranging from an OCaml Bootcamp to Dev Teach-ins that expose students to interesting technical problems from around the company. Part of the job is to make these better and mint more of them where valuable.
• Writing longer pieces. We need more tutorials and overviews on a variety of topics. We have an internal developer handbook that we’re writing, with a backlog of chapters—each one an opportunity to dive deep into some part of our stack. But there’s also a lot of external writing to be done, for instance on our blog, our programming podcast, for conferences, recruiting events, and more.

In terms of skills, we want someone who is both an excellent writer and good enough at programming to navigate our codebase, work through our tutorials, and write up examples. You might spend meaningful time embedded as an engineer on one of our projects, just to understand how we write software. But experience with functional programming, expressive type systems, OCaml, or finance are all unnecessary—we’re happy to teach you about these things here.

Base salary is $200,000 - $300,000. Base salary is only one part of Jane Street total compensation, which includes an annual discretionary bonus.

Jane Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer