Developer Advocate

About PayPal

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure. We empower consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. Operating a global, two-sided network at scale, we connect hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers, facilitating payments whether online or in person. Beyond third-party networks, we provide proprietary payment solutions, offering flexibility for customers to use accounts for purchases, payments, transfers, and withdrawals using various funding sources. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products ensure safer and simpler fund transfers between friends and family. For merchants, we offer an end-to-end payment solution with authorization, settlement, instant fund access, and risk management, enabling cross-border shopping and global reach while reducing complexity.

Our business is guided daily by core values: Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. These values ensure we work as one global team, keeping our customers central and prioritizing self-care, mutual support, and community engagement.

The PayPal Developer Relations Team

The PayPal Developer Relations (DevRel) team is undergoing a transformation, aiming to resonate deeply with the world developers inhabit. We understand their interests, roles, and expertise levels, serving as a trusted source for best practices, documentation, and training. We also act as the primary liaison for internal engineering teams, conveying feedback and experiences from the developer community. As a Developer Advocate, you will be crucial in planning and delivering highly technical and engaging content for developers, focusing on improving the developer experience across PayPal's SDKs, APIs, and documentation. This content will encompass blogs, videos, and presentations at third-party conferences, local meetups, and webinars. This role requires extensive cross-business collaboration to influence the quality, type, and topics of technical content produced by other teams, ensuring alignment with the DevRel team's tone and personality.

Responsibilities of a Developer Advocate

• Act as the voice of the developer, driving improvements in SDKs, APIs, documentation, and web platforms to facilitate quick onboarding and transactions.
• Create compelling technical blogs, videos, demos, and tutorials.
• Represent PayPal as a Developer Advocate by speaking at developer conferences, hackathons, local meetups, and internal PayPal developer events, and by facilitating webinars and tutorials.
• Cultivate deep trust with developers, inspiring evangelism and advocacy from the external developer community.
• Develop and distribute tools and automation to enhance efficiencies within the developer ecosystem.

Qualifications

• +3 years of experience in frontend and web commerce technologies, including frameworks, API, and SDKs.
• Familiarity with developer-focused AI tools such as Replit and Copilot.
• Broad knowledge of PayPal products and services and its ecosystem.
• Broad knowledge of leading open-source tools and frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to simplify complex architectures and solutions, making them easily understandable for developers of all backgrounds.
• Excitement for coaching and mentoring others.
• Proven ability to drive cross-team and cross-functional collaboration to solve problems, innovate, and enhance the developer experience.
• Experience in non-technical aspects, including business analysis and process optimization.

Additional Responsibilities and Preferred Qualifications

• Creative candidates with unique perspectives.
• A unique voice to make technical content interesting, engaging, and fun for developers.

Key Skills/Competency

• Developer Advocacy
• API Development
• SDK Integration
• Technical Content Creation
• Public Speaking
• Frontend Technologies
• Web Commerce
• Community Engagement
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Developer Experience (DX)