API Technical Writer

About FINN

At FINN our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While our customers drive, we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

Position

At finn.auto, we create software that will enable our team to manage thousands of vehicles and customers on a daily basis. As an API technical writer, you play a key role in building our product by creating useful and engaging software documentation. You have the chance to join this team early on and work independently on our product. If you love to contribute your ideas to a growing company in the heart of Munich then apply now.

Objectives

• Best software to support business: Together with your team, you ship new features for our applications. Thereby you actively participate in delivering the best software possible for our customers and business units
• Strive for excellence: You strive to deliver the best possible experience for our users by empowering them through an effective software
• Providing beautiful software documentation: You help your engineering colleagues by writing high-quality and easy-to-understand documentation for the appropriate audiences

Your qualification

• You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 3+ years creating API documentation in an agile development environment
• Passion for creating useful and engaging software documentation with a strong customer-centric focus
• Ability to work with API documentation tools such as Markdown, GitLab, Postman, Swagger, or other docs-as-code approaches
• Comfortable understanding codes in one or more programming languages, such as NodeJS or Python. A frontend language like JavaScript is also helpful
• Experience in relevant product areas (e.g. eCommerce or B2C, SaaS platforms)
• Usability and testing skills with patience in problem-solving and troubleshooting
• Talent in creating visual content using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign is a plus
• Meticulous attention to detail and joy in precise working
• You have a “never-stop-learning” attitude and a desire to develop and grow 
• You are fluent in English

What we offer

• Excellent fixed salary
• Full visa support (also for your family) 
• 1,500€ yearly personal development budget: We constantly motivate and fund you to learn, grow and advance your potential

Additional details

Values We Share

• Customer first - Always focus on our customers’ needs. Reduce complexity, increase quality
• Own it - Be entrepreneurial in everything you do. Take responsibility for your individual and finn's overall goals
• Embrace the struggle - Apply attention to detail and don't shy away from tough decisions. Never stop getting your hands dirty
• We grow and succeed together - We help each other to succeed as a team and grow as individuals. We love to fight and to win together
• Be honest and open-minded - Always speak out the truth, even if it hurts. Dare to be authentic and embrace others' authenticity

Our Profile

• Founders who focus on product and developer needs while building the most popular mobility provider
• We are a dynamic team in the heart of Munich (Poccistraße) that strives to make mobility fun & sustainable
• We live a culture of trust and ownership. Every idea and every opinion is welcome 
• We believe in DevOps, continuous integration and testing
• State-of-the-art tools like: gitlab, postman pro, swagger, ...
• We love and live agile as a SCRUM team, with open boards, regular retros and daily stand-ups
• Join an open-minded tech organization with a “best tool for the job” attitude. You have freedom to choose your equipment, accessories, editors, tools and technology and are given plenty of room for learning and experimentation 
• We value our joint lunches and team activities and will make sure that every team member feels welcome!