Technical Writer - Remote

Job Description

Paymentology?s technology allows millions of Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay transactions to be processed around the world. We provide simple-to-use APIs for issuing, redeeming, and reconciling prepaid cards to help simplify the complicated world of card processing. We have offices in Johannesburg, London, and Dubai plus a remote team reaching from one side of the globe to the other. Our team is diverse and widespread but we all have a shared passion for delivering products that can change lives.We have an amazing team of Paymentologists who work across 40 different countries, and now we need you!About the role:In the past 23 years, we?ve learned a lot, accumulated a wealth of know-how, and built up a large knowledge base. Our team is continuously growing and adding new remote team members around the world, so its imperative that our information is expertly written, and organized in an efficient and meaningful way. That?s where you come in!We are looking for a Technical Writerexpert to write and manage the collection of information and documentation within Paymentology. We will look to you to create and lead a strategy that brings order to our internal information structure and grows across all teams and roles within our organization. If you love the challenge of creating something from scratch and you?re tedious about info hierarchy then this is the role for you!What you?ll be doing:

• Your first order of business will be to review our existing documentation including product information, sales, and technical documentation create knowledge base articles that will be added to our Knowledge Base within Confluence, or create questions and answers in Stack Overflow (the recognized leader in Tech knowledge platforms)
• You will then work with our Systems, Product, Client service, New Business, and Technical teams in order to determine what information is missing, and gather, collect, collate and write as necessary, to build the Knowledge Base content
• You will work with various teams to extract undocumented information and processes so that this knowledge is captured on the relevant system (knowledge base in Confluence, Stack Overflow, Rise)
• You?ll continuously monitor the various internal and external channels in which our team members seek answers and information, communicate with clients, and conduct training sessions (these channels primarily include email, Slack, Zendesk, and Zoom)in order to identify knowledge gaps
• All of this information will needto becaptured into concise, engaging textand expanded upon (ex: add screenshots, video clips, etc) before being tagged and neatly wrapped up in a Confluence page
• Once the information is added into Confluence, it?s time to make sense of it all. You?ll work with tags and keywords to make search results more relevant and put your hierarchy plan into action in order to make information easy to find
• You?ll be in constant communication with our team to understand what?s looking good and what needs more tweaking
• Let?s not forget about Stack Overflow: we want to copy/paste the Confluence process, but this time with a Developer and DevOps focus applied to Stack Overflow
• Lastly, we want to make sure that we?ve got a plan in place for the future and we?ll look to you to help us plan ahead when it comes to monitoring, capturing, and discovering knowledge yet-to-be learned

Were looking for people that make stuff work. Our core values are?

• Make it happen
• Make it easy
• Make it right

And for this role you?ll need:

• 2+ years of writing experience focused on internal content creation (knowledge base, support documents, product/technical documents, etc)
• Previous experience tackling a similar project that involves implementing a cycle of monitoring, capturing, and discovery of information and content
• A passion for creating meaningful help content with the ability to break down complex concepts into user-friendly material
• Proven success quickly grasping new concepts, technology, and the lingo that goes along with it
• Flexibility to work and communicate with a team around the world (our team is scattered across the globe from Latin American all way to SE Asia)
• You should be fearless when it comes to jumping into a whirlwind of information and quickly taking the lead on the best strategy for bringing a sense of order
• English is our company language so you?ll need to be fully fluent, both written and spoken

Additional information:This is a permanent role open to candidates around the world. Ideally, we?re looking for individuals in locations that will have a few hours of overlap between UTC +2 and UTC +4.

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