Lead Technical Writer

Responsibilities

• Translate complex system and architecture designs into clear, structured documentation aimed at engineers, architects and product teams.
• Treat documentation as a product: own processes for releases, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Create and maintain architectural descriptions, technical specifications, release notes and API/SDK integration guides.
• Produce integration documentation for APIs, SDKs and interaction schemas (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI-ready).
• Establish and maintain a unified knowledge ecosystem: style guides, templates, taxonomy and internal best practices.
• Implement visualization assets: diagrams using Mermaid, PlantUML, Draw.io and similar tools.
• Coordinate with architects, tech leads and engineering teams to collect, validate and publish docs.
• Manage Git-based version control and CI/CD publishing pipelines for documentation (work samples required).

Requirements

• Lead Technical Writer with 3+ years experience and systems thinking.
• Strong command of Markdown, HTML and YAML.
• Practical experience with OpenAPI and/or AsyncAPI.
• Proven experience using Git and CI/CD for documentation publishing; portfolio/work samples required.
• Basic understanding of blockchain operational principles (network, consensus, on-chain/off-chain).
• Comfortable reading code and interfacing with engineers; exposure to Solidity, Rust, TVM, or Kotlin is a plus.
• English proficiency (B2+) for confident technical writing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience leading or mentoring technical writers.
• Experience implementing documentation-as-code workflows and publisher automation.
• Background contributing to developer portals or API platforms.
• Familiarity with diagram-as-code tools and documentation design systems.

Benefits

• Work at the technical core, collaborating closely with architects and tech leads.
• Opportunity to lead a documentation team and drive documentation standards and tooling.
• Competitive UAE employment package with annual leave and paid leave provisions.
• Health insurance and end-of-service gratuity in line with UAE employment regulations.
• Visa support for UAE-based hires.

About the Company

MIRA CONSTRUCTION L.L.C is a UAE-based development and construction firm with growing technical capabilities and digital initiatives. The company blends engineering, design and technology to deliver projects across the UAE and is expanding its technical documentation and developer experience functions. This role is based in Dubai and reports to the technical leadership team, interfacing with engineering, product and architecture stakeholders to professionalize documentation as a product.