Senior Software Engineer – AI-Driven Payments Backend

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Agentic Commerce to join our global engineering team in London. You will help build secure, real-time payment infrastructure and AI agent integrations that enable merchants, payment platforms, and risk systems to operate together efficiently.

The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, scalable APIs, and developer tooling with strong focus on security, observability, and reliability, across a fast-moving financial tech landscape.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating production services, APIs, distributed systems, or transaction-processing apps.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Strong fundamentals in API design, testing, CI/CD, observability, security.
• Practical interest in AI agents and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure backend services that enable real‑time payment workflows.
• Own features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and production readiness.
• Develop merchant-facing APIs, SDKs, documentation, and developer tooling.
• Collaborate across product, architecture, security, fraud, gateway, and platform teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud platforms

AI agent interest

Security

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Agentic Commerce to join our global engineering team in London. You will help build secure, real-time payment infrastructure and AI agent integrations that enable merchants, payment platforms, and risk systems to operate together efficiently.

The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, scalable APIs, and developer tooling with strong focus on security, observability, and reliability, across a fast-moving financial tech landscape.