Developer Evangelist

Budget: $1,000 to $2,500

Assembla is seeking a talented, enthusiastic and self-directed technologist to help explain and promote our products to software developers. We want someone who is excited about development tools, likes working with software developers, has a little marketing experience, and wants to make an impact on the software development industry.

Responsibilities:
•    Create documentation, reference materials, FAQ's, blog posts, and newsletters
•    Develop tutorial videos and presentations of product features and enhancements
•    Engage with customers to better understand how to explain our products
•    Develop templates for different use cases and customer scenarios

Summarize the opportunity. Why is this a good team, project and role?
Great opportunity to get involved with a fast-growing startup that is at the forefront of agile and cloud development.

Requirements:
•    Excellent writing and communication skills with experience in software development
•    Experience working with startups, developer communities or open source communities.
•    Understanding of software development tools and methodologies
•    Experience writing and publishing user guides, social media content or technical documentation

Bonus Points for familiarity with:
•    Source code management systems like Subversion, Git, or Mercurial.
•    Ticketing and bug tracking tools and agile planning tools like Trac, Jira, Pivotal Tracker
•    Agile development methodologies like Scrum, XP, and Kanban.

Compensation:
We will consider candidates in any global location, with a slight preference for someone who can work in our offices located in Needham, outside of Boston, MA. We prefer someone who can work full time, but we will consider part-time availability.

Our goal is to find a candidate to work over the long term to grow the company. We will ask for a two week trial engagement. If we both like the results of that engagement, we will negotiate a short term contract or a full time offer.