Software Engineer / Writer
Jane Street · New York City, New York, US
About the Position We're looking to hire a programmer-who-writes, or a writer-who-codes. Here are the kinds of things we’d like to have this person work on:...
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About the Position We're looking to hire a programmer-who-writes, or a writer-who-codes. Here are the kinds of things we’d like to have this person work on: In terms of skills, we want someone who is both an excellent writer and good enough at programming to navigate our codebase, work through our tutorials, and write up examples. You might spend meaningful time embedded as an engineer on one of our projects, just to understand how we write software. But experience with functional programming, expressive type systems, OCaml, or finance are all unnecessary—we’re happy to teach you about these things here. If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com . - Documentation. We’ve always believed that developers should spend time and effort documenting their own code, but at the same time, a great writer with a feel for the technology can raise the level of quality in a way that few developers can. Establishing a culture of great docs is especially important as we grow. - Building tools that support documentation. So much documentation is auto-generated by our systems, whether as error messages, logs, automated emails, or...