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Contract Technical Writer (SDKs) – Sencha, Palo Alto August 10, 2010

Palo Alto-based Sencha makes application frameworks that equip developers to create, deploy, and optimize compelling application experiences using Web-standard technologies. We need an experienced, senior-level contract technical writer to plan and develop technical documentation for our suite of JavaScript and Java libraries. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a variety of highly technical documentation for a wide audience of developers.

To succeed in this position, please have several years of experience documenting SDKs, particularly in dynamic start up environments.

Additionally you must:

• Demonstrate solid experience developing various types of documentation (including procedural and reference documentation and tutorials), in various formats for a software developer audience. Writing samples expected.
• Understand the documentation development lifecycle and be able to help define documentation requirements and scope and then plan, schedule, and manage your own work in a fast-paced environment.
• Have a solid understanding of Web technologies and application development concepts.
• Have knowledge of JavaScript, object oriented concepts and dynamic languages.
• Be a “hands-on” technical content development expert who is able to use a source control repository, set up a Web server, and use the SDK you are documenting.
• Be able to navigate and read code.
• Be able to quickly learn complex technical concepts and distill them into concise, usable documentation.
• Be flexible and able to work in an environment in which documentation authoring environment, standards, and processes are being defined.
• Be able to use standard documentation development tools and editors.

Ideally, you will also be:

• Able to write code snippets.
• Comfortable working in source code and have experience editing documentation comments/annotations directly within the code.
• Able to contribute to our efforts to define our authoring environment, standards, and processes.
• Familiar with modular documentation, structured authoring, single-sourcing, and chunking concepts.

Specific knowledge of MVC or GWT would be helpful but is not required.

LOCAL AND PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES ONLY.

Contact:
Technical Publications
Email: techdocjob@gmail.com (insert ASCII text in message body or send PDF as an attachment). NO PHONE CALLS. PLEASE.