
Technical Writer
Two Circles
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Vancouver • Canada
Visit company websiteExplore more
About the role
- - Own the documentation strategy across all internal and external audiences
- - Create content that helps new team members onboard quickly and helps clients realise value faster
- - Establish standards, templates, style guides, and best practices for how knowledge is authored and maintained
- - Build a scalable structure for documentation across multiple building blocks and product areas
- - Introduce governance processes that ensure documentation remains accurate, discoverable, and up to date
- - Translate complex systems, data pipelines, backend logic, and workflows into clear, structured documentation
- - Write content to support our engineering teams (architecture explanations, system overviews, integration references)
- - Write user-facing content (how-to guides, onboarding journeys, in-app help, conceptual overviews)
- - Create diagrams, flowcharts, and visual representations to simplify technical concepts
- - Maintain version-controlled documentation aligned with ongoing releases and product updates
- - Work closely with Engineering to understand system behaviour and technical changes
- - Partner with Product to clarify workflows, terminology, and expected behaviours
- - Partner with Product Marketing to ensure messaging and documentation are aligned across channels
- - Collaborate with Client, QA, Support, and Delivery teams to identify documentation gaps and high-impact opportunities
- - Attend team ceremonies and product reviews to stay ahead of upcoming changes
- - Help build, structure, and scale Atlas, our internal GPT-powered knowledge base
- - Design information architecture, tagging, retrieval methods, and content flows
- - Use AI tools to accelerate drafting, summarisation, classification, and content maintenance
- - Introduce processes that improve documentation discoverability, accuracy, and automation
- - Evaluate and evolve documentation tooling as the platform expands
- - Identify the documentation that will materially improve onboarding, adoption, and support efficiency
- - Prioritise work across multiple product teams and requests
- - Define lightweight frameworks for how documentation needs are assessed and maintained
- - Advocate for documentation as a core part of product quality and delivery
Requirements
- - 3–4+ years of technical writing experience in SaaS, data-heavy platforms, backend systems, or developer-oriented products
- - Ability to explain complex systems, architectures, and data flows with clarity and precision
- - Experience working closely with engineering and technical stakeholders
- - Strong information architecture and content-design capabilities
- - Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills — concise, structured, accurate
- - Comfortable diving into technical details (reviewing code snippets, API behaviour, system logic)
- - Able to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work across teams
- - Experience establishing documentation processes, standards, and tooling
- - Comfortable leveraging AI to scale writing efficiency, consistency, and impact
- - Background in computer science, data science, engineering, or related fields is desirable
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
technical writinginformation architecturecontent designdocumentation processesdata pipelinesbackend systemsAPI behaviourversion controlAI toolsSaaS
Soft skills
communicationwritingeditingprioritizationcollaborationclarityprecisionorganizationadaptabilityadvocacy