Technical Writer - Remote

Overview

At SPREAD, we enable engineering teams at leading companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, BMW, Bosch, and Rheinmetall to navigate the complexities of software-defined vehicles and products. Our platform transforms intricate engineering and software data into actionable Engineering Intelligence, providing teams with preconfigured applications and AI agents to access and apply critical product knowledge more effectively. This approach accelerates time-to-market by up to 10×, reduces costs by 50%, and enhances product quality.

In Short

• Ship docs with code using Git to ensure that docs and features land together.
• Run the doc site and its information architecture as one system, and customize the site where necessary.
• Maintain the GraphQL reference documentation to ensure users can access the knowledge graph.
• Document technical theory, tutorials, and references, and create courses for a technical audience.
• Create samples and exercises to show how to use the SPREAD product.
• Write for a tech audience with inclusive language and manage localizations.
• Triage and iterate with intention, manage the backlog, watch search queries and 404s, and publish refactors, redirects, and deprecations with clear notes.
• Improve the docs pipeline thoughtfully over time, choose automation that removes toil, and keep the focus on author experience and reader impact.

Requirements

• 4-8 years of shipping developer documentation with a portfolio that proves guides, tutorials, and API or SDK reference that developers actually use.
• Experience writing for a B2B SaaS product and highly technical audiences, with an instinct for enterprise needs and constraints.
• Editorial strength with sharp line editing, consistent terminology and voice, localization-ready writing, and flawless English (German as a great advantage).
• Docs-as-code in production with Git workflows, PR reviews, plain text authoring, and a Static Site Generator such as MkDocs Material, Docusaurus, Hugo, or similar.
• Comfortable with building and maintaining websites using Markdown, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, YAML, JSON, and Python.
• Ability to read code and write small Python/JavaScript utilities to unblock docs, validate snippets, or glue tools together.
• Discovery and ownership through interactions with engineers, reproducing steps, verifying paths end-to-end, and running a docs epic with clear communication.

Benefits

• Attractive compensation + performance bonus.
• Mobility budget (e.g. Deutschlandticket).
• Urban Sports Club membership.
• 30 vacation days.
• Workation options.
• A volunteering day.
• A €1,000 learning budget.
• ISO 27001 and TISAX certified, fully GDPR-compliant, with flexible deployments (cloud or on-prem).
• A hybrid work model designed to fit your life.