Integration Engineer Intern Review

Interact directly with PayPal clients, merchants, partners and developers to recognize and articulate business requirements and how best to implement our PayPal solutions, while adhering to PayPal guidelines and company policies. 
• Act as main technical point of contact for all implementation-related activities throughout the integration effort. Facilitate setting up test accounts, provide technical development and coding support, and guide the client through testing and pre-launch activities.  
• Be the “Voice of the Customer” and relay constructive feedback to Product Managers, Engineering, Technology and other internal groups on ease of use and new functionality.  Work with internal teams on any required feature enhancements or to address any solution gaps. 
• Work in partnership with Solution Engineers and Solution Architects to integrate proposed PayPal solutions into the client commerce platforms. 
• Work with key internal stakeholders, including Product Management, Risk, Payments, etc. to address specific customer business requirements or new product features.  
• Work closely with internal teams including compliance, privacy, risk, information security, support and operations to ensure all aspects of a merchant launch are managed 
• Identify and define integration specific best practices 
• Ensure partners implement optimal integration strategies, techniques and user experience best practices

Yes, the responsibility given to me as an intern was on par with what a Full Time Integration Engineer would do. I was give the opportunity to work with Merchants and carry out my own initiatives.

I've learnt a lot of new skills and developed existing ones - both hard skills and soft skills, such as my written and verbal communication as welling as learning new technical skills and building on ones I had. Such as specific programming languages.

A lot of guidance, the whole team as well as people from different areas of the business are really friendly and genuinely support your journey to develop.

Everyone at the company is quite friendly and genuinely supportive when it comes to finding help. You will not feel out of place.

Could not have picked a better place for my placement. You get to actually engage with Merchants and work on initiatives that will help you grow in the direction you want. The internship programme arranged by university is also great - gets you to try a lot of new things.

Yes