Software Engineer — Technical Documentation Contributor at Specific Specialists in India
- Company: Specific Specialists
- Location: India
- Posted: Sep 17, 2026
- Type: Contract
- Salary: $15 per accepted document
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
This remote contract role is for software engineers and technical documentation contributors based in India who write human-authored technical documents. Acceptable document types are design docs, RFCs, ADRs, technical proposals, PRDs, migration plans, postmortems, build-vs-buy analyses, experiment …
Job description
- This remote contract role is for software engineers and technical documentation contributors based in India who write human-authored technical documents. Acceptable document types are design docs, RFCs, ADRs, technical proposals, PRDs, migration plans, postmortems, build-vs-buy analyses, experiment docs, and capacity/reliability planning. The work is not source code, not AI-written, and not blog posts or tutorials. Contributors should be the author or primary author of English-language documents of 3–10 pages. Review is within 1 day. Apply by submitting a 1–2 document sample on the marketplace and saying how many documents you can contribute.
Responsibilities
- Write human-authored technical documents (design docs, RFCs, ADRs, technical proposals, PRDs, migration plans, postmortems, build-vs-buy, experiment docs, capacity/reliability planning).
- Submit work that is original, human-written, and not blog posts or tutorials.
Requirements
- Currently based in India (remote contract).
- Software engineer / technical documentation contributor.
- Can write in English.
- Author or primary author of 3–10 page technical documents.
- Will apply with a 1–2 document sample and state how many documents they can contribute.
Skills
Required
- Software engineering
- Technical documentation writing
- English writing
- Authoring technical documents