Technical Lead - AI-Driven Agentic Commerce

Global Payments; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Technical Lead for the Agentic Commerce Engineering team to shape the future of autonomous commerce and secure, reliable payments at global scale. You will own API and SDK development, lead architecture reviews, and mentor engineers, partnering with AI and standards groups to deliver trusted agent-led payment flows.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration across teams, and building scalable, developer-friendly payment infrastructure for a global

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with architecture ownership.
• Experience delivering distributed services and APIs with high reliability.
• Strong cloud-native engineering on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead secure API and SDK development for merchant integrations.
• Define patterns for identity, tokenization, and fraud signals.
• Provide hands-on architecture reviews and mentoring.
• Collaborate with standards groups and AI partners on agent-led payments.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

APIs & SDKs

Cloud platforms

AI agent systems

Leadership

Security & reliability

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Global Payments is seeking a Technical Lead for the Agentic Commerce Engineering team to shape the future of autonomous commerce and secure, reliable payments at global scale. You will own API and SDK development, lead architecture reviews, and mentor engineers, partnering with AI and standards groups to deliver trusted agent-led payment flows.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration across teams, and building scalable, developer-friendly payment infrastructure for a global