Developer Advocate - DevRel

PayPal • San Jose, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• +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

Nice To Haves

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

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

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees