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# Senior Technical Writer / Senior Documentation Engineer at Backbase

- **Company:** Backbase
- **Location:** Cardiff, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workatbackbase/jobs/8045074

## Job description

## Role Overview

The Senior Documentation Engineer is the documentation authority for a value stream (department). You manage the documentation system, information architecture, AI workflows, quality standards, and strategic direction for your domain. Your documentation is vital for implementation teams and partners that integrate the Backbase software in the bank's software ecosystem. You actively seek out users' feedback and use it to improve the documentation and the documentation system.

## Key Responsibilities

- Documentation system: Manages the AI-powered documentation system that is based on docs-as-code and Git. Continuously improves the tools and processes and kills bottlenecks.
- Documentation skills: Produces developer documentation and functional documentation with a clear separation in content types. Enforces writing style guidelines, terminology, templates, grammar, and spelling. Is hyperfocused on quality, seamless content flow, and avoiding bloat. Owns the information hierarchy of assigned documentation sets. Acts as a documentation authority within the value stream and advises teams on their documentation needs.
- Technical and domain knowledge: Understands the readers' SDLC and how documentation plays a vital role in their work. Has a basic understanding of software development. Has a deep understanding of the products delivered by their value stream and can connect it to the wider Backbase platform. Quickly learns new functional domains and is able to interview R&D product managers to understand the product. Can converse easily with R&D developers to assess technical documentation needs or check technical details. Translates this technical and domain knowledge into effective instructions for AI-powered tools.
- Legal and support terms: Understands the support terms and the legal impact of the documentation.
- User advocate: Knows the target audience and their documentation needs and pain points. Translates this knowledge into strategic advice to the value stream leadership.

## Qualifications & Experience

- Experience: 4-10 years as a documentation specialist, technical writer, or equivalent, in the field of developer documentation.
- Education: Either a Bachelor/Master's degree in software engineering/related field (combined with professional-level language proficiency) or university-level analytical skills (combined with professional-level language proficiency and a strong aptitude for technology)

General Competencies

Personal

- Accountability: Tracks work items vigorously, routinely spots gaps and bugs and creates appropriate work items. Keeps their promises. Manages their calendar, inbox, messages, meetings, and office attendance as a professional.
- Prioritization: Focuses on delivering customer value, responds quickly to user requests, divides time across release-related work, bug reports, and improvements.
- Growth mindset: Seeks out learning opportunities, asks for feedback, asks questions, and helps others to learn and grow. Challenges decisions when they have a concern. Actively participates in group meetings and makes their voice heard during discussions. Suggests and leads improvement projects.

People

- Stakeholder management: Communicates pro-actively, keeping managers and stakeholders actively updated. Raises issues with the appropriate team or leader. Follows-up with people. Suggests changes to value stream leaders and discusses their requests and suggestions as an equal.
- Teams: Builds confidence and trust with their teams through reliability, predictability, and transparency of process and output. Models best behavior to fellow team members and holds them accountable for quality.
- Collaboration: Establishes a fruitful collaboration with teams and fellow documentation engineers. Balances helping others and saying no. Practices active listening and clear communication. Focuses on problem solving. May coach and supervise less experienced team members.

Project Management

- Process: Follows established processes and communicates these with their teams. Drives improvements to processes.
- Projects: Oversees a large or complex documentation project with various stakeholders from beginning to end.

## About Backbase

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Backbase builds the AI-native Banking OS that unifies digital channels, front office, and operations so banks can coordinate customers, employees, and AI agents from one platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no public ticker; no funding rounds disclosed – appears organically grown)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (described as “founder-led” but names not stated on the provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Banking technology / financial services software
- **Target customers**: B2B – large banking institutions (120+ banks globally, serving 75M+ daily users)
- **Mission/purpose**: “We built something that didn't exist before – an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks.”

## Products & Services
- **AI-native Banking OS**: A unified platform that sits above legacy cores, CRMs, and data platforms. It orchestrates customer engagement (digital banking, conversational banking, front-office workspaces) and banking operations (high-volume processes like disputes, payments, lending). Designed to be deployed incrementally without rip-and-replace. Includes native AI agents for governance, automation, and auditability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 2,000+ employees globally, 50% of team in R&D, 120+ banks as customers, 75M+ active daily users across the platform
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding globally with 16 offices across 5 continents; notable customer examples include I&M Bank (Africa) which grew onboarding from 2,000 to 21,000 new customers per month, and Techcombank (Vietnam) achieving 50% of savings and investments through digital. The company is actively hiring and describes itself as “in the middle of the biggest shift in banking’s history.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Frontline architecture** – breaks down fragmentation between digital channels, front office, and operations, enabling banks to move fast without sacrificing compliance or security
- **AI-native from the ground up** – not a bolt-on; full governance and audit trails for every AI decision
- **Progressive modernization** – works with existing cores, no big-bang migration required
- **18+ years of banking domain expertise** (since 2003) with a singular focus on banking since 2012

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI integration into banking workflows (Elastic Operations – scaling throughput without scaling headcount)
- Expanding global footprint (17 offices, including recent additions in Hyderabad, Riyadh, Mexico City, and Toronto)
- Continuing to shift banks from legacy fragmentation to a unified, composable operating system

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally.
- **Perks**: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one.
- **Engineering focus**: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots.

## Sources
1. [backbase.com/careers](https://www.backbase.com/careers)
2. [backbase.com/about](https://www.backbase.com/about)
3. [backbase.com](https://www.backbase.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/backbase](https://www.linkedin.com/company/backbase)

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