Senior Technical Writer

We provide the global commerce tools people need to build businesses, accept payments, and enable commerce for their users. It’s the simplest way to get paid for your great ideas -- across any device, and through almost any payment method. Merchants in more than 40 countries worldwide can accept, split, and enable payments in more than 130 currencies using Braintree.

The PayPal Developer Experience is looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join us in delivering concise and accurate conceptual, integration, and reference documentation for both internal and external developers.

As a Senior Technical Writer, you will work directly with various product and development teams around the world to produce new documentation and update existing documents for the payment solutions we are bringing to market. You will also collaborate with the rest of the technical writing team on an ongoing basis to ensure that our tools, guidelines, and standards are effective and efficient.

We are seeking a candidate who is able to run development tools to use and test APIs and other solutions to verify the accuracy of the information that we provide. * Experience designing, writing, and testing API integration and reference documents * Is a self-starter who is able to take a project and run with it * 7+ years experience writing documentation for developer audiences * Manages time and projects effectively, juggling multiple projects and deliverables * Able to articulate basic concepts and uses of Web service technologies, including WSDL, XML, SOAP, JSON, and/or REST * Basic understanding of HTTP request-response protocol * Basic ability to read, modify, and test sample code, such as JavaScript, PHP, C#, and Java * Able to articulate basic database concepts at a conceptual level * Comfortable authoring in HTML and Markdown * Comfortable authoring in Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker * Experience with a source control system such as Perforce or GitHub * Nice to have: Ability to code simple applications from scratch * Nice to have: B.S. or higher in EE, CS, or equivalent