Integration Engineer

PayPal; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking an Integration Engineer to manage technical relationships for partner accounts. You will qualify opportunities, run workshops, and lead projects from discovery to go-live. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor's degree in finance and computer science, 5+ years of relevant experience in payments and web technologies, and strong communication skills. The role allows for less than 10% domestic travel, with no expected international travel.

Responsibilities

• Qualify opportunities alongside Sales, mapping merchant business goals to PayPal’s product capabilities.
• Run discovery workshops to develop requirements around PayPal's ecommerce solutions.
• Act as technical project lead from discovery to contract signature.
• Establish best-practices to ensure resilient payment flows.
• Analyze transaction data to recommend new capabilities.
• Capture recurring merchant pain points and influence product roadmap.
• Build reusable assets like reference architectures and sample code.
• Mentor junior customer engineers and contribute to playbook improvements.

Skills

Web Services

APIs

GraphQL

REST

HTML/HTTP

iOS

Android

Presenting skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance and computer science

Job description

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As a Integration 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.

You'll leverage dynamic problem-solving and critical thinking skills, exceptional technical expertise, and a solid business acumen to guide other Integration Engineers during the integration phase of projects.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.