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PayPal · 3 hours ago

Developer Advocate - DevRel

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$107K/yr - $118K/yr

3+ years exp

PayPal is a global leader in commerce innovation, empowering consumers and businesses for over 25 years. The Developer Advocate will focus on enhancing the developer experience by creating engaging technical content and acting as a liaison between developers and internal teams.

E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

Frontend technologiesAPISDKsDeveloper focused AI toolsOpen-source tools knowledgeBusiness analysisCoachingEngaging technical contentCommunication skillsMentoringCross-team collaborationCreative perspective

Required

+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

Preferred

Creative candidates with unique perspectives

A unique voice to make technical content interesting, engaging and fun for developers

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employee shares options

Health and life insurance

Company

PayPal

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PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.

Founded in 1998

San Jose, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.paypal.com/home

H1B Sponsorship

PayPal has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1144)

2024 (917)

2023 (775)

2022 (921)

2021 (1051)

2020 (1049)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$12.17B

Key Investors

Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBlueRun Ventures

2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B

2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B

2015-07-20IPO

Leadership Team

Simon Bladon

CEO, UK

chaloem khompitoon

President & CEO

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