Developer Advocate

Developer Advocate

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, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

The PayPal Developer Relations (DevRel) team is transforming! PayPal for Developers is not business as usual. We reflect the world developers live and work in, know what they’re into, at any role or level of expertise. We’re the source of trust for developers that look for best practices, documentation and training, as well as the main point of contact for internal engineering teams who needs to understand the feedback and experiences of the developer community. The Developer Advocate will be responsible for the planning and delivery of highly technical and engaging content for developers, and improving the developer experience on PayPal platforms, focused on SDKs, APIs and Docs. The content would be blogs, videos, and delivering presentations at 3rd party conferences, local meet ups, or webinars. This role will be required to work across lines of business to collaborate and influence the quality, types and topics of technical content produced by other teams, and ensure that it meets the tone and personality of DevRel.

Responsibilities:

• Being the voice of the developer to drive changes/improvements in SDKs, APIs, Docs and web to enable developers to quickly onboard and transact
• Creating technical blogs, videos, demos, and tutorials
• Being the developer advocate by speaking at developer conferences, hackathons, local meet ups, and PayPal’s developer events, and facilitating webinars and tutorials
• Develop deep trust with developers and encourage evangelism and advocacy from external developers
• Build and distribute tools and automation to gain efficiencies

Qualifications:

• +3 years of experience in frontend and web commerce technologies, including frameworks, API and SDKs
• 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 communications skills
• Ability to simplify complex architectures and solutions providing an easy to developers no matter their background
• Excited about coaching and mentoring others
• Able to drive cross-team and cross-functional collaboration to solve problems, innovate and improve developer’s 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

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location : Pay Range:

San Jose, California : $143,500-$188,500

Additional Location(s) : Pay Range:

Chicago, Illinois : $130,500-$171,450

Austin, Texas: $130,500-$171,450

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Key skills/competency:

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