Technical Writer

Br Dge; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company based in Edinburgh is seeking a Technical Writer to create and maintain comprehensive documentation for their payment orchestration platform. The successful candidate will work closely with engineers and product owners to ensure that new features are documented accurately and clearly, significantly improving the quality and accessibility of documentation for merchants. This hybrid role offers an opportunity to impact product documentation processes directly while enjoying a flexible working culture.

Benefits

Flexible and remote working

Remote working allowance

33 days holiday

Your birthday as a day off

Family healthcare

Life insurance

Employee assistance programme

Investment in your learning and development

Regular team events and socials

Qualifications

• Proven experience writing technical documentation for APIs, developer tools, or complex platforms.
• Strong written English, with excellent attention to clarity, structure, and audience.
• Comfortable working directly with Engineers and Product teams in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run a robust process for documenting new product functionality.
• Own the creation of high-quality merchant-facing documentation for APIs and platform features.
• Work directly with Engineers during feature delivery to validate behavior.

Skills

Proven experience writing technical documentation

Strong written English

Hands-on experience using Postman

Solid understanding of back-end concepts

Strong organisational skills

Tools

Postman

ReadMe

Job description

Hybrid (Edinburgh)-Permanent / Full Time

BR-DGE is an award-winning FinTech founded in Edinburgh. Our platform enables enterprise e-commerce and technology businesses to design, optimise, and scale complex payment infrastructures with confidence.

Since 2018, we’ve been building a modern payment orchestration platform that gives merchants control, flexibility, and resilience across their payment stack. Our customers include household names across travel, retail, and regulated gaming sectors, supported by world-class partners such as Visa and Worldpay.

We operate in a highly regulated, technically demanding environment, where reliability, clarity, and execution quality matter. As our platform and customer base continue to grow, high-quality technical documentation is becoming a critical part of how we ship products and support our merchants and will play a central role in allowing us to scale rapidly.

All BR-DGE Builders receive the following benefits:

• Flexible and remote working
• Remote working allowance
• 33 days holiday including public holidays
• Your birthday as a day off
• Family healthcare
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• A culture that champions rapid career progression
• Investment in your learning and development
• Regular team events u0026 socials

Become a BR-DGE Builder

About the role:

We are looking for a Technical Writer to take ownership of our developer and API documentation, with a strong focus on ensuring new functionality is documented clearly, accurately, and on time.

This is a hands‑on role embedded within our product and engineering workflows. You will work closely with Engineers and Product Owners to shape, write, and maintain documentation as features are delivered, reducing the gap between development completion and merchant‑ready documentation.

The role is proactive by design. You’ll work with a visible pipeline of upcoming features, engaging early with design and implementation to ensure documentation is ready when customers need it.

What you'll be doing:

• Establish and run a robust, repeatable process for documenting new product functionality as it is released.
• Own the creation of high-quality, merchant‑facing documentation for APIs, integrations, and platform features.
• Work directly with Engineers during feature delivery to:
  • review design documents
  • exercise APIs using tools such as Postman
  • ask clarifying questions and validate behaviour
• Partner with Product Owners to validate that documentation reflects intended product behaviour, while removing documentation workload from POs.
• Maintain and improve documentation structure, clarity, and discoverability within our existing platform (ReadMe).
• Allocate roughly 70% of time to net‑new documentation and 30% to cleanup and restructuring of existing docs.
• Contribute to defining what “good” documentation workflows look like, and collaborate with stakeholders to simplify and improve publishing processes.
• Ensure documentation is timely, accurate, and aligned with release timelines.

What we're looking for:

Core requirements

• Proven experience writingtechnical documentation for APIs, developer tools, or complex platforms.
• Strong written English, with excellent attention to clarity, structure, and audience.
• Hands‑on experience usingPostmanor similar tools to exercise APIs.
• Solid understanding of back‑end concepts such as APIs, authentication, data flows, and environments.
• Comfortable working directly with Engineers and Product teams in an agile environment.
• Ability to drive documentationproactively, rather than waiting for requests.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple documentation streams in parallel.

Nice to have

• Experience investigating issues beyond API usage, such as logs, tracing, or database behaviour.
• Background in payments, fintech, or other regulated industries.
• Experience improving or redesigning documentation workflows and publishing pipelines.
• Hybrid backgrounds such as former engineers, Technical Support Engineers, or API specialists who have moved into documentation.
• Documentation platform:ReadMe
• API tooling:Postman
• Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Technical Solutions teams
• Access to staging and sandbox environments provided

What success looks like:

Within the first 90 days:

• A clear, reliable process for documenting new features is in place and being followed
• Documentation for new releases is consistently being delivered to a high standard

Within 6 months:

• The time between feature completion and merchant‑ready documentation is significantly reduced
• Documentation quality supports faster merchant adoption and fewer clarification loops with Product and Support

Beyond:

• Positive feedback about quality of documentation, ease of integration, and our team's contribution to the successful outcomes of our commercial and implementation teams
• Reduction in time spent on request servicing, with self‑serve resources enabled to free our Product and Customer Support teams' time for other high‑value activity

What We Offer:

• 33 days holiday, including public holidays
• Birthday off
• Family healthcare
• Life insurance
• Employeeassistanceprogramme
• Investment in learning and development
• Regular team events and off‑sites
• A collaborative culture where documentation is treated as a first‑class product