Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience creating content for technical audiences (e.g., developer documentation, Computer Science course material, or IT administration playbooks).
  
• 4 years of experience working with or writing for systems, or software engineering topics.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience researching and writing documentation for architects, developers, and IT operations.
  
• Experience writing for the web and with Markdown, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  
• Experience researching and writing effective documentation for architects, developers, and IT-operations.
  
• Knowledge of trends in user assistance, content publishing, and mobile technologies.
  
• Ability to manage multiple projects and engaging priorities.
  
• Ability to understand source code written in Java.
  

About the job

Technical writers plan, create, and maintain educational content as an integral part of the engineering or user experience. The content is often in the form of documentation, but may also be UI text, sample code, videos, or other educational material. Regardless of the content medium, technical writers are distinguished by their abilities to explain complex topics in a way thats useful to their audience. Google Play is available on Android smartphones and tablets, as well as devices running Chrome OS, Wear OS, and Android TV. The team is building and operating a global store connecting users to amazing developer content. Trust, choice, and delight are core tenets of the teams strategy.
In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for improving Google Play developer experience.
Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Play Engineers and Product teams to build Play developer-facing content (e.g., feature definition, integration guides) and drive developer adoption of Play services .
• Drive excellent content creation that scales beyond what you can do by yourself, and the quality of your content is a model to others.
• Participate in gap analysis and customer research to help us identify content needs.
• Understand the technical details or fundamental concepts of a product or program to anticipate user needs along the entire user journey.
• Contribute content management expertise, as we transform legacy content formats into new ones.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.