PayPal Sr Sales Engineer 

Kenya, Kitui County 

798204085

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.

• 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.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $111,500 to $191,950

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