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Intern engineering writer

Engineering Writer (intern level) - full time

We are looking for an engineering writer to contribute to writing projects.

Our intern engineering writers work on building proof-of-concept systems and writing guides about how to do that. They get technical and writing coaching from the team.

You'll enjoy this role if you like working on greenfield problems - starting with a blank slate and solving a specific problem in 10-20 hours of technical work, followed by writing up a detailed guide on how you did it.

Who we are

Ritza is a technical writing agency. We create documentation, blog posts, guides, ebooks, and other technical materials, usually for software engineers. All our writers have engineering experience and they produce the materials that they would want themselves.

Although we work fully remotely, most of the team is in South Africa and we meet up in person at least once per year.

We've done work for well-known technical startups like Sentry, Replit, Sourcegraph, and many others.

Read more about what it's like writing for Ritza.

What we offer

  • A globally distributed, asynchronous work environment (since before covid). We communicate mainly on Slack, with occasional Zoom calls. We follow our principles which describe in more detail our focus on crafting.
  • Greenfield projects: most of our work is building proof-of-concept applications and integrations and documenting how that is done. This is often very satisfying as you can start from scratch without tech debt, and make your own decisions about structure and tooling.
  • Small team: we're around 10 people with a mix of full and part-time at the moment. Join us and make your mark by helping to define how we scale.
  • Flexibility: our core working hours are 9AM to 5PM SAST, and we need some overlap with these, but otherwise we offer a lot of flexibility in terms of when the work gets done.

Compared to working in corp, you'll have fewer meetings, need to deal less with legacy systems, and generally focus more on building and creating. One of our senior writers said:

Ritza made me realise why I loved coding again.

What we are looking for

You should have at least some experience writing software, preferably in a production setting. You should have excellent written communication skills, and be able to write well-structured paragraphs and clear technical steps.

You should have some experience writing: a personal blog, technical documentation, or anything else is fine.

You can find a summary of what we expect from our engineering writers at different levels in our career ladder.

Apply by filling out this form (note it is a generic form we use for all applications so some fields may not apply).

You should be available for ~40 hours per week, from 9AM to 5PM SAST.

Email gareth-at-ritza-dot-co if you have questions with 'INTERN ENGINEERING WRITER' as a subject.

[We are also hiring for several existing and future projects, so feel free to fill out the form if you’re interested in tech writing even if you’re not a perfect fit.]