Technical Writer at Interledger Foundation at Interledger Foundation

The Interledger Foundation is working towards a more equitable and creative global society through an open payments network that connects and benefits each human, regardless of identity, geography, or income.

To drive this vision forward we:

• Connect a powerful community of web advocates and leaders
• Promote creative and innovative solutions to connecting humanity
• Steward technology and standards work that advances open payment technology

Financial exclusion and scarcity have often been a tool for oppression, discrimination, and systemic inequity. The Interledger Foundation is committed to building financial systems to include voices that have been traditionally excluded. Our extraordinarily ambitious goal is to decentralize power, privilege, and financial control.

About the Role

As a full-time technical writer with the Interledger Foundation, you will help untangle and explain the Interledger ecosystem of technologies and contribute to the organizations successful growth.

We seek a mission-oriented, strategic, creative, and collaborative candidate who cares deeply about using the platform of the web to expand financial inclusion. The Technical Writer position is ideal for a detail-oriented candidate interested in applying an equity and systems thinking approach to the intersections of technology, creative expression, and commerce.

Interledger Documentation Ecosystem

As a member of the ILFs doc team, youll help create and maintain documentation for:

• Interledgers Developers Portal -https://interledger.org/developers/
• Open Payments -https://openpayments.guide/
• Rafiki -https://rafiki.dev/
• Web Monetization -https://webmonetization.org/
• Payment Pointers -https://paymentpointers.org/

You Will

• Create, review, and maintain technical documentation for our developer community, including concept docs, API references, code snippets, dev guides, sequence diagrams, and blog posts
• Work closely with the software engineering team to gain a deep understanding of complex topics and become an expert on the technologies you document
• Contribute and adhere to in-house style guides, best practices, doc processes and standards, and information architecture designs
• Continuously strive to improve the clarity, accuracy, and conciseness of the documentation; incorporate feedback; identify and fill content gaps; and maintain a consistent tone, structure, and format across our doc sets
• Help people across the Interledger developer communities contribute to our documentation by reviewing contributions and providing constructive feedback; performing final edits to ensure contributions are clear, accurate, and follow our style guides; and validating build files before merges

You Are

• An experienced technical writer with at least 3 years of relevant experience, preferably writing for a developer audience
• Experienced in using Markdown, a static site generator (we use Astro Starlight), and GitHub to develop and publish documentation
• Familiar with RESTful APIs and the OpenAPI specification
• Able to learn new technologies quickly
• Comfortable working on a team that spans multiple continents and time zones

• Are part of an established developer community
• Have experience documenting open source projects
• Can read and understand one or more programming languages
• Are familiar with the GraphQL specification
• Have a background in FinTech, banking, or payments
• Are a fan of the Oxford comma
• What to Know Before Applying
• Writing Samples and Assignment
• Please provide three of your best writing samples or a link to your portfolio.
• If youre a good fit, youll be asked to complete an assignment to help us assess your writing and technical skills. Familiarity with the ILFs doc set is not required to complete the assignment.

Location

The Interledger Foundation is based in the United States and has a fully remote staff. This position can be based almost anywhere in the world, excluding countries on the US Sanctions list. Compensation may be affected by international hiring costs in specific locations.

Benefits

For eligible employees based in the U.S, the Interledger Foundation provides a competitive benefits offering including:

• Health Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Student Loan Repayment
• Shared Office Reimbursement
• Internet Reimbursement
• Home Office Equipment Reimbursement
• Professional Development
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Parental Leave
• Bereavement Leave

Employees based outside the U.S may be eligible for a local benefits offering or a stipend for use in acquiring benefits and health care.