← All roles

Software Engineer / Writer

Jane Street· Technology
Apply on company site
New York$200k - $300kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

We're looking to hire a programmer-who-writes, or a writer-who-codes. The role blends coding with technical writing, focusing on documentation, tooling for documentation, training material, and writing longer technical pieces across tutorials, internal handbooks, blogs, podcasts, conferences, and recruiting events.

Responsibilities

  • 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 library docstrings. Getting your hands dirty hacking on documentation-adjacent tools will help not just to a first order, but will also make your other writing more effective.
  • Training material. We have a ton of programs that new and experienced hires go through, ranging from an OCaml Bootcamp to Dev Teach-ins that expose students to interesting technical problems from around the company. Part of the job is to make these better and mint more of them where valuable.
  • Writing longer pieces. We need more tutorials and overviews on a variety of topics. We have an internal developer handbook that we’re writing, with a backlog of chapters—each one an opportunity to dive deep into some part of our stack. There’s also external writing to be done, e.g. on our blog, programming podcast, for conferences, recruiting events, and more.

Qualifications

  • Excellent writing ability and programming skill to navigate our codebase, work through our tutorials, and write up examples.
  • Experience with functional programming, expressive type systems, OCaml, or finance are not required—we’re happy to teach you about these things here.

Skills

Required:Writing abilityProgramming ability to navigate codebase
Nice to have:OCaml / functional programming familiarity
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Jane Street

SIX

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

Machine learningquantitative tradingtechnologyresearch-drivenglobal marketsinternshipseventsprograms
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Jane Street