Technical Writer

Firecrawl; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity up to 0.05%

Generous PTO - 15 mandatory days

Wellness stipend - $100/month

Learning & Development stipend - $1,000/year

12 weeks fully paid parental leave

401(k) plan with pre-tax benefits

Job summary

Firecrawl in San Francisco is looking for a Technical Writer to develop comprehensive documentation for our developer tools. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining API references, tutorials, and technical content that highlight product features and enhance discoverability.

The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience in technical writing for developer-facing products, with a strong grasp on SEO. Join our fast-paced team to help us document and share our innovative tools for developers.

Qualifications

• Experience writing for developer-facing products.
• Ability to read code and write working code examples.
• Strong command of SEO and keyword research.

Responsibilities

• Own the documentation end to end, ensuring it accompanies product features.
• Create technical content like tutorials and integration guides.
• Collaborate with the growth team to maximize content discoverability.

Skills

Technical writing

SEO content creation

Code comprehension

Collaboration with engineers

Education

4+ years in technical writing for developer products

Tools

Markdown

GitHub

Job description

Technical Writer

You'll own how Firecrawl explains itself to developers, and how developers find us in the first place. That spans docs, API reference, SDK guides, quickstarts, tutorials, cookbooks, and the technical content that lives between engineering and growth. Two things make this role work: the docs are the product surface developers hit first, and the technical content is how they discover us at all. You'll own the writing end to end, and you'll treat search and LLM discoverability as part of the craft, not an afterthought you hand to someone else.

You'll work closely with the growth team, who owns growth and content strategy, while you own the writing itself: turning shipped features into clear documentation, and turning real product capabilities into tutorials and cookbooks that rank, get cited, and actually show developers what's possible.

Salary Range: $160,000 to $200,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation.)

Equity Range: Up to 0.05%

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 4+ years writing for a technical or developer-facing product

Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 135k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.

We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure superintelligence will use to gather data on the web. We ship fast and deep.

What You'll Do

• Own the docs end to end: API reference, SDK guides, quickstarts, conceptual explainers, and migration guides. When something ships, the docs ship with it.
• Write technical content that pulls developers in: tutorials, cookbooks, integration guides, and long-form pieces that show real use cases with real code.
• Own discoverability of everything you write. You understand how developers actually search now: traditional SEO and GEO (getting cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and the other LLMs developers use to find tools). You write content that ranks and gets surfaced, and you can prove it moved.
• Build the content that compounds: SEO-relevant tutorials, comparison guides, and the cookbook entries that show up the moment someone searches for the problem we solve.
• Read the codebase, talk to engineers, and use the product yourself. The bar is that you understand what you're documenting well enough to catch what engineers forgot to mention.
• Maintain a consistent voice across docs and content. Clear, direct, no fluff, written for a developer who wants to ship something today.
• Partner with engineering on release notes, changelogs, and the docs updates that ride alongside new features.
• Triage and respond to docs feedback from GitHub, Discord, and support. The docs are a product. They get bugs. You fix them.

What We're Looking For

A writer who can actually code. You don't need to ship production features, but you should be able to read a Python or TypeScript SDK, run an API call, debug your own example, and write a tutorial that works on the first copy-paste. If your code examples don't run, neither does the documentation.

Experience writing for developers. You've worked on a developer tool, API, SDK, or infrastructure product. You know what good docs look like (Stripe, Twilio, Vercel, Supabase) and you know why those docs work. You write for the developer who wants to skim, find the snippet, and ship.

A real command of how developers discover tools. You've written content that ranked, and you understand the newer game of getting surfaced inside LLMs. You know keyword research and on-page structure cold, you write for search intent without writing for robots, and you can point to content that drove measurable organic discovery. This is not a side skill for this role.

Range across docs and content. You can write a tight API reference page and a 2,000-word tutorial in the same week without one bleeding into the other. You know when to be terse and when to teach.

Strong taste and a high bar. You notice when an example is technically correct but practically useless. You rewrite your own drafts. You push back when a feature ships with a confusing name.

Comfortable working without a content brief for every piece. Eric will set direction on the bigger bets. The week-to-week (what needs updating, what's missing, what would actually help a developer right now) is yours to figure out and run with.

Backgrounds that often do well: technical writers from developer tool or API companies, former developers who moved into writing, DevRel engineers who spent more time writing than speaking, technical content marketers at PLG dev tools who can genuinely write docs.

What We're NOT Looking For

• Writers who can't read code, or who outsource every example to an engineer.
• Pure content marketers without the technical depth to write real docs.
• SEO specialists who optimize content they can't write themselves.
• Anyone who needs a full editorial calendar handed to them before they can produce.
• Writers who think "developer content" means listicles and thought leadership.

A Note On Pace

We're a small team doing a lot. Roles here are loosely defined on purpose. You'll own things that don't have a clear owner yet, and that's a feature, not a bug. If you need your scope fully defined before you can move, this probably isn't the right fit. If you want to write the docs and content behind one of the fastest-growing developer tools on the internet, let's talk.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

Salary that makes sense — $160,000–$200,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure

Own a piece — Up to 0.05% equity in what you're helping build

Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge

Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads

Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls

Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works

Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs

Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch

401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (U.S.-only) to help your wallet out a bit

Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too

Available to SF-based employees

SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy

E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process

Application Review — Send us your work: links to docs, tutorials, or technical content you've written. A short note on what you'd want to understand about Firecrawl's current docs before you started.

Intro Chat (~20 min) — Quick alignment call. We'll talk about what you've written, how you work with engineers, and what you'd prioritize first.

Writing Sample (take-home) — Pick a real Firecrawl feature, read the existing docs, and rewrite one page. We're looking at how you read the product, how you structure information, and whether your examples actually run.

Deep Dive Chat (~60 min) — Walk us through a piece of writing you're proud of and one you'd redo. Then a live scenario: how would you approach the first 30 days of docs and content work at Firecrawl?

Founder Chat (~30 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Decision — We move fast.

If you want to write the docs and content behind one of the fastest-growing developer tools on the internet, this is your shot.

Apply now.