Technical Writer

About the Company

Nabu Casa is the organization behind Home Assistant, the world's largest free and open-source smart home platform used by over two million households. We are a profitable company with no external investors, dedicated to privacy, choice, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end documentation experience for Nabu Casa Hardware and Cloud
• Plan and deliver documentation for new features, integrations, and releases
• Work directly with engineers to research and verify technical content
• Audit and improve existing documentation continuously
• Define and maintain documentation standards, style guides, and templates
• Triage and act on documentation feedback from the community and support teams
• Contribute to developer experience including API guides and integration documentation
• Track documentation quality signals and report on them regularly

Requirements

• Strong technical writing skills with a portfolio of developer or product documentation
• Ability to read and understand code (Python, YAML, REST APIs)
• Good understanding of smart home hardware and electronics
• Experience with docs-as-code workflows (Git, Markdown, MkDocs, or Docusaurus)
• High autonomy and self-direction
• Strong stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Home Assistant or similar open-source software
• Experience maintaining documentation for community-driven projects
• Systematic approach to auditing large documentation sets
• Experience working async in a remote-first, distributed team

Benefits

• Five weeks of paid time off
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave
• Parental leave (six weeks paid, six weeks unpaid)
• Work hardware budget
• Annual smart home budget
• Annual education budget
• Yearly performance bonus
• 50% internet connection fee contribution
• One day every two weeks for personal projects