Technical Writer ? San Francisco | STC Silicon Valley

Organization: ngmoco:)
Contact: Stephen Keen
City: San Francisco
Phone: 408.621.1065
Website: http://www.ngmoco.com/careers
Job Title: Technical Writer
Duration: Contract or Staff

Company Description:

Mobile is the entertainment medium of the 21st century. At ngmoco:) we develop and publish innovative social games for this new medium. ngmoco:) was founded in July 2008 to build top quality games for smartphones. In 2010 we joined with Japan?s leading mobile social company DeNA to bring delight to gaming audiences around the world. Our chart-topping games are free to play, because we believe that everyone should be able to play together. With DeNA we provide Mobage, a global mobile gaming platform with highly engaged user networks. Underneath our games is ngCore, a Javascript development framework for building powerful, native-quality mobile titles for both Android and iOS. Armed with sharp minds, ambitious technology, and big ideas, ngmoco:) is building the future of fun.

Responsibilities:

Create user friendly, easy to follow technical documentation for ngmoco?s software platform, ngCore. Work with engineers to gather technical information and produce programming guides, API references and other technical documents used both internally and by the Mobage development community.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with software development and exposure to C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python or Ruby.
• 3-5 years of experience producing technical documents for software development.
• Experience writing API level documentation.
• Experience writing development guides for external audiences.
• Be able switch easily between speaking engineering tech speak, to explaining complex ideas in simple terminology for a non-tech audience.
• Have the skills to develop code samples for API documentation.
• Be able to validate API documentation by writing test code.

Other Key Attributes:

• A passion for social games and social networks.
• Familiarity with XML markup and DITA an advantage.
• Comfort working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Appreciation for being part of a fast-paced startup environment?an interest in working with a small team to document software used by millions of people every day.
• Strong communication and time management skills?the ability to balance high quality work standards against time constraints.
• A relentless passion for creating industry leading products and the highest quality user experiences.

Please send writing samples (must include an API documentation sample) with your resume.

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