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Sr. Sales Engineer

PayPal, San Jose, California, United States, 95199

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Company Overview 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.

Job Summary As a Senior Sales Engineer on the PayPal Global Professional Services team, you will own the end‑to‑end technical relationship for an assigned portfolio of Partner accounts. You’ll be responsible for providing technical consultation and integration services for the implementation of PayPal’s payment, identity, and platform capabilities across Commerce platforms, enabling seamless experiences for mobile, online, and in‑store transactions. Your role will remove technical friction, accelerate time‑to‑revenue, and position PayPal as the client’s trusted long‑term payments partner.

Essential Responsibilities

Recognize and articulate business requirements

Implement PayPal solutions while adhering to guidelines and company policies

Provide technical development and coding support

Guide clients through testing and pre‑launch activities

Relay constructive feedback to internal groups

Address specific customer business requirements or new product features

Ensure partners implement optimal integration strategies and user experience best practices

Assess and troubleshoot integration issues

Onboard new PayPal acquisitions into Application Security tools

Advocate security awareness and implement best‑practice security procedures

Expected Qualifications

5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities And Preferred Qualifications

Qualify opportunities alongside Sales, mapping merchant business goals to PayPal’s product capabilities, crafting solution architectures, demos and prototypes that showcase the "art of the possible"

Run discovery workshops to develop requirements around PayPal’s ecommerce solutions

Serve as technical project lead from discovery to contract signature, through go‑live, building rollout plans, leading merchants’ developers through integration milestones, and coordinating internal Engineering, Product, Risk and Servicing resources

Establish best‑practices, webhook and testing patterns to ensure resilient payment flows

Act as trusted advisor after go‑live, analyzing transaction data and payment KPIs to recommend new capabilities (i.e. stablecoins, agentic commerce, network-token update, A/B routing, APMs, etc.)

Drive technical health checks, roadmap sessions, and executive briefings to unlock solution expansion and additional merchant value

Capture recurring merchant pain points, influence our product roadmap and surface feature requests to Product/Engineering to be the "voice of the customer" inside the company.

Build reusable assets, such as reference architectures, sample code, white‑papers, demos, etc. Speak at internal technical events, webinars, conferences and partner events to evangelize PayPal’s solutions and modern payments architecture trends

Mentor junior customer engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of presales and implementation playbook

Position Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in finance and computer science.

5+ years of experience/exposure in the following areas:

Web and mobile technologies including Web Services, APIs, GraphQL, REST, HTML/HTTP, iOS, Android and leading web and mobile application frameworks.

Multiple major programming languages (C++, Objective‑C, C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, .NET, PHP, Python).

5+ years of experience with Payments (Credit Card, Banking, Online, Offline), especially with ecommerce systems, payments gateways and payment processors, is highly valued.

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal in English.

Ability to successfully interact and dynamically adapt to communication styles with all levels of client organizations including C‑level executives, middle management, finance and operations, technical/IT staff, and line personnel.

Ability to translate requirements into detailed design and solution documents.

Ability to quickly assess and troubleshoot most integration issues.

Effective time management skills to work with multiple external customers concurrently.

Self‑starter who can ramp up on new products quickly; design, develop and implement holistic custom solutions to enable expedited and seamless partner onboarding and launches.

Strong presentation skills (Presenting to Business units and technical teams).

Less than 10% domestic travel. International travel is not expected.

Compensation The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $111,500 to $191,950. PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience. The total compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.

Benefits At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life, including a flexible work environment, employee share options, health and life insurance, and more. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create a welcoming environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. PayPal cultivates inclusivity and belonging through tangible actions that support a diverse workforce inclusive of all.

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