Lead Technical Writer for RAD Studio

Join in leading and contributing to a writing team dedicated helping software developers to be more productive using rapid application development tools.
Investigate source code and document functionality, contribute to sample code, help systems, installation and release notes, user manuals, and desktop video recordings. Work in an agile, collaborative environment where there is always something new to learn and your ability to pass that learning on to others is the key to success.
Be the communication peer for the team and an interface with globally distributed organization groups.

Skills and Experience Required
• Graduate degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or equivalent analytical experience
• Ability to write and communicate clear, concise, correct, technical English
• Experience in leading a team to achieve goals
• Communication and teamwork skills to work with a globally distributed team
• Can read and understand programming languages and frameworks such as Delphi and C++,
• Good OOP fundamentals understanding,
• Driven to solve technical problems
• Passionate for showing people how things work
• Enjoys investigating and asking questions
• Technical writing experience strongly preferred
• Understanding of software and/or documentation quality assurance methodologies preferred
• Understanding of Agile development process is a plus
• Education in general management is a plus

Supervisory Responsibilities
• Plan, schedule, assign and track writing activities in the team
• Clearly communicate plans and status to team members and managers
• Collaborate with peers and managers to prioritize activities
• Interface the team with the offshore reviewers
• Share technical knowledge and help team members to solve the tasks
• Train new writers in how to use systems, processes
• Help in the recruiting process with technical expertise

Responsibilities and Activities
• White box investigation. Analyze code, develop code and document functionality
• Write accurate reference materials about products APIs, like help system, user guides, design specifications
• Write concise tasks, procedures, and tutorials describing how to use software products
• Write sample code to illustrate features
• Use applications and read their code to document
• Fix defects and supply enhancements to the documentation on an ongoing basis
• Write sample code to illustrate features
• Use some or all of the following tools as part of the work
o XML editor (Oxygen, others)
o HTML editor (Dreamweaver, others)
o Source control (Subversion)
o Defect tracker (Bugzilla, Jira)

Embarcadero Technologies Romania is the Iasi-based R&D center of Embarcadero Technologies Inc. It was started in 2006 and it is now the one of the largest IT companies in Iasi, being responsible for some of the best development and database tools in the entire industry (as JBuilder, C++ Builder, RAD Studio, DBArtisan, Delphi, ER/Studio to name just few of the 16 projects we deal with in Iasi).

Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices located around the world.
Embarcadero serves more than three million users in thousands of companies and organizations worldwide. From independent software vendors, systems integrators and value added resellers to government organizations, OEMs, and IT and R&D groups within large enterprise teams, Embarcadero tools empower developers and database professionals to design things right, build them faster, optimize and run them better. Embarcadero products are used in the most demanding vertical industries in 29 countries and by more than 97% of the Global 2000 world’s biggest companies.

For more information about our company and products please visit www.embarcadero.com. If you are interested, please send us your resume or ask questions about all open job opportunities in Iasi at careers.ro[at]embarcadero.com. Only selected candidates will be contacted.