Technical Writer

Technical Writer

Company: Nabu Casa (Home Assistant)

Location: Remote (Global)

About the Role

Nabu Casa, the organization behind Home Assistant, is seeking a Technical Writer to own the documentation experience for Nabu Casa Hardware and Cloud. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role where you will be the primary person responsible for making our products accessible to a global community of users and developers. You will translate technical complexity into clear, empowering content, working directly with engineers to ensure accuracy and clarity. Our community is technically sophisticated and values precision above all.

What You Will Do

• Own the end-to-end documentation experience for Nabu Casa Hardware and Cloud, ensuring content is accurate, up-to-date, and discoverable.
• Plan and deliver documentation for new features, integrations, and releases in sync with the product shipping cycle.
• Collaborate directly with engineers to research and verify technical content.
• Continuously audit and improve existing documentation, flagging outdated content, filling gaps, and enhancing structure and tone.
• Define and maintain documentation standards, style guides, and templates to ensure consistency.
• Triage and act on documentation feedback from the community, support, and internal teams.
• Contribute to the developer experience through API guides, integration documentation, and contributor docs.
• Track documentation quality signals and report on them regularly.

What You Need to Have

• Strong technical writing skills with a portfolio of developer or product documentation.
• Ability to read and understand code (Python, YAML, REST APIs) sufficiently to write accurate technical content.
• Good understanding of smart home hardware and electronics, with basic troubleshooting capabilities.
• Experience with docs-as-code workflows (Git, Markdown, static site generators like MkDocs or Docusaurus).
• High autonomy and self-direction.
• Strong stakeholder management skills to efficiently gather technical information from engineers.

It Would Be Great If You Also Have:

• Familiarity with Home Assistant or similar open-source/self-hosted software.
• Experience maintaining documentation for a community-driven project.
• A systematic approach to auditing large documentation sets.
• Experience working asynchronously in a remote-first, distributed team.

What We Offer

• A fully remote organization employing people worldwide.
• Full-time position (40 hours per week) with flexible scheduling and a focus on team communication overlap.
• Full benefits required by your country of residence, plus a minimum set of benefits for all employees:
• Five weeks (25 days) of paid time off.
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave.
• Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave.
• Budget for work hardware (may be kept for personal use after three years).
• Annual smart home budget.
• Annual education budget.
• Yearly performance bonus.
• 50% contribution to home internet connection fee.
• One day every two weeks for personal projects.
• Total compensation package aims for the 75th percentile of local market rates.

Approximate Yearly Compensation (examples):

• Greece: 56.100 EUR
• Hungary: 20.250.000 HUF
• Ireland: 70.500 EUR
• Italy: 64.400 EUR
• Poland: 215.000 PLN
• Portugal: 61.200 EUR
• Romania: 275.000 RON
• Spain: 63.600 EUR
• UK: 73.800 GBP
• Other countries: Discussed during interview.

About Us

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, funded solely by subscriptions and purchases that directly support ongoing development. Our guiding principles are privacy, choice, and sustainability.