Technical Writer

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

PTO 15 days

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

L&D allowance

Team offsites

Sabbatical

SFHQ perks

E-Bike loan

Job summary

Firecrawl is hiring a Technical Writer to own developer documentation, guides, tutorials, and API references. You’ll turn complex features into fast, clear learning paths and work closely with engineering to ensure accurate, timely content.

You should have 3+ years writing technical documentation for developer-facing or API products and a passion for clarity that improves developer experience. Remote-friendly, SF option available.

Qualifications

• You've written technical documentation for a developer-facing or API product, and you can show it.
• You write with genuine clarity, making complex concepts feel obvious.
• You're technical enough to read code, use an API, and understand documenting needs.
• You care about the developer experience and sweat the details that make docs useful.
• You move fast, ship, measure, and iterate rather than over-perfect on paper.

Responsibilities

• Write and own the documentation, guides, tutorials, and API references developers rely on.
• Turn complex functionality into content that helps users reach first success quickly.
• Work with engineering to document new features accurately and rapidly.
• Treat docs as a product: measure where developers get stuck and fix it.

Skills

Technical writing

Developer docs

API documentation

Clarity in writing

Job description

Technical Writer

You'll own how developers learn to use Firecrawl. Great docs are one of the biggest reasons developers pick a tool and stick with it, and for a product that lives or dies by developer experience, this role matters more than most companies realize. You'll write the documentation, guides, tutorials, and references that turn 'what does this do?' into 'I shipped it in ten minutes.' You'll work across engineering and growth, dogfood the product constantly, and treat clarity as a feature. You'll report to our Growth Marketing Lead and own real documentation surface from day one.

Salary Range: $140,000–$185,000/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.)

Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process.

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

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 3+ years writing technical documentation for developer-facing or API products

Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 150+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

What You'll Do

• Write and own the documentation, guides, tutorials, and API references developers rely on
• Turn complex, technical functionality into content that gets someone to their first success fast
• Dogfood the product constantly, if the docs are confusing, you felt it first
• Work directly with engineering to document new features accurately and quickly
• Treat docs as a product: measure where developers get stuck and fix it

What We're Looking For

• You've written technical documentation for a developer-facing or API product, and you can show it
• You write with genuine clarity, you can make something complex feel obvious
• You're technical enough to read code, use an API, and understand what you're documenting
• You care about the developer's experience and sweat the details that make docs actually useful
• You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

What We're NOT Looking For

• A writer who can't or won't get technical enough to understand the product
• Someone who writes for the sake of volume rather than developer success
• Someone who needs a fully-specced brief to start

A Note On Pace

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

• Salary that makes sense — $140,000–$185,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece — Gain competitive 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 all parents
• 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 (US-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

Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll look at a real piece of our product and talk through how you'd document it, or have you show us how you'd take something complex and make it clear. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason about clarity, not whether you memorized a style guide.

Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Write a real piece of Firecrawl documentation with the team — paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you work. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments.

Decision — We move fast after the trial.