Sr Specialist, Integration Partner

PayPal seeks Sr Specialist, Integration Partner in Chicago, IL.

As a Sr Specialist, Integration Partner, you will serve as the primary technical point of contact for merchants, partners, and developers, providing technical consultation and integration guidance to implement Braintree and PayPal’s payment APIs and SDKs and platform capabilities, ensuring successful integration and optimal performance.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to identify and articulate business requirements, then merge Braintree and PayPal’s multitude of APIs and experiences to create optimal payment solutions tailored to consumer and merchant needs.
• Facilitate the setup of test and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environments, providing hands-on technical development, coding support, and troubleshooting.
• Guide clients and partners through testing and pre-launch activities to ensure seamless integration and system readiness prior to production deployment.
• Act as the “Voice of the Customer” by gathering and communicating actionable feedback to Product Management, Engineering, and internal stakeholders.
• Provide insights to enhance product usability, identify new feature opportunities, and ensure delivery of a best-in-class payment experience for merchants and customers.
• Work with internal teams such as Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security to address customer-specific integration requirements or facilitate new product launches.
• Identify and define integration-specific best practices, including optimal integration strategies, techniques, and user experience standards for merchant and partner implementations.
• Ensure that integration solutions strictly comply with PayPal guidelines, security protocols, risk management practices, and global privacy standards.
• Proactively identify potential risks and implement mitigation strategies to deliver secure, policy-compliant integration launches.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Engineering Management, Engineering, or a closely related field plus two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Experience designing and developing large-scale software applications using Object-Oriented Design and Java, JavaScript, and Nodejs (2 years).
• Experience with JavaScript for web application development and API integrations (2 years).
• Experience with Python for data analysis, automation scripts, and workflow development (2 years).
• Experience with backend log analysis and monitoring tools for troubleshooting and performance optimization (2 years).
• Experience with fintech payment processing APIs and integration SDKs (2 years).
• Experience with payment gateway integration including authorization, capture, settlement, and refund flows (2 years).
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools for metrics analysis and reporting (2 years).
• Experience with MySQL database design, schema optimization, and query performance tuning (2 years).

Benefits:

• Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial.
• Generous paid time off.
• Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
• Resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Salary: $89,315.00-162,500.00 per annum.