Overview

The role

Apryse is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Senior Technical Writer to join our team and help update and elevate our developer documentation for our SDKs, ensuring a world-class developer experience.

Your technical skills and writing ability will play a key role in creating clear, structured, and developer-focused content that supports our customers as they integrate our products.

Responsibilities

  • Review, update, and maintain clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for software development kits (SDKs).
  • Collaborate with product managers and developers to review and update best-in-class technical guides, tutorials, and API references for a developer audience.
  • Partner with engineers to establish and enforce a unified documentation style, ensuring a consistent voice and structure across all SDK documentation.
  • Create and deliver targeted release notes for effective and compelling communication of product updates.
  • Gather feedback from stakeholders and the developer community to refine documentation for clarity, usability, and accuracy.
  • Champion Developer Experience best practices, staying current on new technologies to keep docs relevant, AI-friendly, and aligned with evolving developer workflows.
  • Perform content updates based on audit results.
  • Test SDK documentation and make updates based on findings.

Desired skills

  • Strong understanding of software development concepts, APIs, and SDKs, with the ability to read and interpret code and translate technical concepts into clear developer documentation.
  • Experience working across multiple operating systems and platforms, including understanding platform-specific considerations for documentation.
  • Familiarity with package managers and build tools, such as npm, Maven, Gradle, NuGet, pip, or CMake.
  • Proficiency with Git and GitHub and experience navigating source code, repositories, branches, pull requests, and code reviews.
  • Working knowledge of command-line tools and shell environments for installing, configuring, building, and running applications.
  • Understanding of API specifications and documentation technologies, such as OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON Schema, and Postman.
  • Ability to test and validate documentation and code samples by building and running SDK applications and verifying expected results.
  • Working knowledge of debugging and troubleshooting, with the ability to investigate common errors, logs, configuration issues, and dependency problems.
  • Familiarity with Docker and containerized development and a general understanding of CI/CD and server deployment workflows.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, architects, product managers, and developer experience teams to understand SDK behavior and produce accurate, developer-focused documentation.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted documentation and automation, including using AI tools to research, draft, review, and maintain technical content and streamline documentation workflows.
  • Understanding of AI-ready documentation, including structured and machine-readable content, semantic search, RAG, and approaches for making documentation discoverable and usable by AI tools and agents.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of relevant experience developing documentation with a developer audience, including SDK and API documentation.
  • Experience managing large and complex documentation sets and developing well-structured and effective information architecture.
  • Ability to understand complex technical topics and translate them into easy-to-understand documentation.
  • Proven experience working independently and as part of cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment, engaging seamlessly with product managers, product marketing, and engineers.

Compensation philosophy

The compensation for this position is commensurate upon experience, and the range listed reflects the position’s salary range. The salary range for this position is $90,000 – $130,000 a year.

Location eligibility

This is a remote position within the United States. We aim to hire in our primary hub locations first, Boston, MA; Denver, CO; and Charlotte, NC, but are also open to candidates who reside in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, and Texas. Candidates must reside in one of these states to be considered for this opportunity.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
  • A comprehensive extended benefits package including health, dental and vision for you and your family.
  • An uncapped commissions structure.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) is offered to support the ability to rest and recharge.
  • A great team environment and resources, supporting you to do the best work of your life and providing unlimited growth potential.
  • Highly autonomous and entrepreneurial environment.
  • Annual recurring WFH allowance for you to purchase items you need for your home office.
  • Ongoing support for learning development so you can master your craft.
  • Work with the hardware you are most comfortable with (Windows or Mac).
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace where we all learn from each other.

Company description

As the industry-leading provider of document software development (SDK) technology powering everything from traditional desktop to web and mobile apps, Apryse continues to change the way the world works with documents. Customers like IBM, Autodesk, DocuSign, Boeing, Microsoft (and many more!) come to us to realize their vision of secure, high-performance document workflows.

Ready to join our team? If you are interested in helping Apryse deliver on its commitments and taking your career to the next level, we would love to hear from you. We are committed to a work environment that is inclusive to all and free of discrimination.