Technical Writer, Adyen
Platforms
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 3+ years of experience in technical/developer documentation
- You have experience with docs-as-code (git, markdown)
- You enjoy working together with developers and product owners to deliver quality documentation
- You can write conceptual documentation, detailed integration guides, code samples, API reference, and other online materials in a developer-friendly language
- You communicate and collaborate well with people from diverse backgrounds
- You are proactive and you like to take ownership and responsibility
- You are a team player with the ability to challenge the status quo and positively influence and elevate the teams around you
- You are determined to influence content, drive the documentation strategy, user experience, and tooling
- Experience developing with programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, or others are a plus
What the job involves
- Due to the growth of the company we are looking for multiple Technical Writers to join the team who understand the technical details and can write documentation for developers interested in integrating with our APIs or SDKs
- You will be part of our development team, based in Amsterdam. Here, you will get familiar with and work on the payment industry's most advanced and robust platform
- Write technical documentation for our external developer audience, such as API reference docs and developer guides
- Deliver clear and concise documentation in simple and easy-to-read English
- Conceptualize and implement solutions to automate and actively optimize our docs
- Collaborate with team members to drive best practices, information architecture, design, and layout
- Review, challenge, and copy edit the content created by writers and non-writers
- Mentor and guide less experienced writers fostering their skill development and professional growth
Application process
- Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days
- Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
- Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $319.5m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
- We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
- We launch fast and iterate
- Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
- We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
- We talk straight without being rude
- We include different people to sharpen our ideas
- We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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