Technical Lead, Agentic Commerce & AI-Powered Payments

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is hiring a Technical Lead for the Agentic Commerce Engineering team to shape the next generation of autonomous payments.

You will own the architecture and hands-on delivery of secure checkout APIs, agented payment tokens, and DX-friendly SDKs, building scalable infrastructure for real-time global transactions. You’ll lead engineering efforts across cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), mentor engineers, and partner with teams and external ecosystems to drive standards and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with distributed services.
• Experience owning architecture and production systems.
• Strong cloud experience across AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Proven ability to lead design reviews and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and ship merchant APIs and SDKs with clear contracts and strong docs.
• Lead secure checkout/API integrations for AI agents and tokenization.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture reviews and governance.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to set standards.

Skills

Distributed systems design

API-first platforms

Cloud-native engineering

Leadership & mentoring

Architecture ownership

Developer experience

Security & reliability

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

RESTful APIs

SDK development

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is hiring a Technical Lead for the Agentic Commerce Engineering team to shape the next generation of autonomous payments.

You will own the architecture and hands-on delivery of secure checkout APIs, agented payment tokens, and DX-friendly SDKs, building scalable infrastructure for real-time global transactions. You’ll lead engineering efforts across cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), mentor engineers, and partner with teams and external ecosystems to drive standards and