In-House Technical Writer

Firecrawl Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end technical documentation for Firecrawl’s developer-facing products, including API reference, SDK guides, quickstarts, conceptual explainers, migration guides, and changelogs that ship alongside new features.
• Write technical content that drives developer discovery and adoption, including tutorials, cookbooks, integration guides, and long-form pieces that demonstrate real-world use cases with executable code.
• Read and understand the Firecrawl codebase, use the product directly, and collaborate with engineers to ensure documentation accurately reflects shipped functionality and catches unspoken edge cases.
• Maintain a consistent, clear, and direct voice across all technical content — no fluff, optimized for developers who want to skim, copy-paste, and ship immediately.
• Partner with the growth marketing team to create SEO-relevant technical content such as comparison guides, tutorial series, and cookbook entries that rank for problems Firecrawl solves.
• Triage and respond to documentation feedback from GitHub, Discord, and support channels, treating docs as a product with bugs that require fixes and updates.
• Write both terse API reference pages and 2,000-word deep-dive tutorials within the same week, adapting tone and structure based on audience need and content purpose.
• Proactively identify gaps in documentation without waiting for a formal brief, using product usage, developer feedback, and market search patterns to prioritize updates.
• Collaborate with engineering on release notes and documentation updates, ensuring technical accuracy and timely delivery with each product release.
• Rewrite drafts relentlessly to eliminate technically correct but practically useless examples, and push back on confusing feature names or unclear product behavior.
• Work autonomously in a fast-moving, loosely defined environment where ownership extends beyond traditional documentation into content strategy and product feedback loops.
• Demonstrate ability to run Python or TypeScript SDK examples, debug code snippets, and ensure all tutorial code works on first copy-paste — no examples outsourced to engineers.
• Bring experience writing for developer tools, APIs, or infrastructure products, with a strong understanding of what makes documentation effective at companies like Stripe, Twilio, Vercel, or Supabase.
• Contribute to a culture of high standards: notice when documentation is incomplete, misleading, or fails to help a developer ship, and take initiative to improve it.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years writing technical content for developer-facing products, APIs, or infrastructure tools
• Ability to read and execute code in Python or TypeScript to validate documentation examples
• Proven experience creating both API reference documentation and long-form tutorials/cookbooks
• Strong preference for candidates with backgrounds in developer tools, PLG startups, or DevRel roles with heavy writing responsibilities
• Comfort working without detailed editorial briefs and proactively identifying documentation needs
• US citizenship or valid work visa required

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of $160,000–$200,000/year (U.S.-based in San Francisco; adjusted fairly for other Americas locations)
• Up to 0.05% equity in Firecrawl
• 15 days mandatory PTO; beyond 24 days, simply ask — holidays excluded
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
• $100/month wellness stipend for gym, therapy, massages, or other personal wellness
• $1,000/year learning and development budget for professional growth
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees, 50% for dependents) — no loopholes
• Employer-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with pre-tax contribution options
• For San Francisco-based employees: loaner e-bike, snacks, drinks, team lunches, and ping pong

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

GitHub

Remote

$160k-200k

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About Firecrawl Inc.

Firecrawl Inc. provides an API that converts entire websites into clean markdown or structured data. Designed for AI applications, the service crawls all accessible subpages, renders dynamic content, and returns LLM-ready output without requiring sitemaps. It includes built-in scraping, search, and extraction capabilities for building knowledge bases, fine-tuning datasets, or powering chatbots. The company targets developers and data teams who need reliable web content ingestion at scale, offering cloud-hosted endpoints and self-hosted options under a usage-based pricing model.

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