Founding Engineer — APAC Agentic Commerce

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore-based APAC founding-engineer role anchored in our APAC strategy for agentic commerce. As one of the first engineers on the ground, you will shape the direction and localization of the product for APAC markets.

You will own architecture end-to-end, engage directly with strategic users across regions, write clear technical documents, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship fast and safely.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, still hands-on with architecture and code.
• Track record as the technical lead on a complex, external-facing product or platform.
• Deep software architecture experience, and sound judgment about tradeoffs under ambiguity.
• Proven ability to work independently and drive projects to completion with little oversight — ideally across time zones or distributed teams.
• Superb written communication. You write documents clear enough that decisions get made async, without you present.
• Strong in-person and verbal communication, including in high-stakes conversations with senior, strategic users.
• Comfort working directly with users: listening, earning trust, and turning their needs into technical direction.
• Usage of AI tools as a standard part of daily delivery, holding their output to the same bar as your own, and getting more capable over time.
• Ability to build alignment across teams and functions without direct authority.
• Experience in payments, fintech, or commerce infrastructure.
• Experience building for APAC markets, or fluency in the region's commerce landscape and languages.
• Experience with AI agents, LLM-driven products, or the protocols that let software transact autonomously.
• A history of taking early-stage products from zero to adoption.
• Experience as a founding or early engineer on a new team or product.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction for agentic commerce in APAC, end to end — from early design through production and adoption.
• Be the prime mover on large, ambiguous projects: break the problem down for parallel work, make fast product and architecture calls, and clear the blockers that would otherwise stall the team.
• Operate with high autonomy across time zones. Make sound decisions independently, and know when and how to upscale.
• Work directly with strategic users. Drive high-stakes conversations, understand what they need, and translate it into systems we can build.
• Write crisp technical documents — proposals, design docs, decision records — that let people in other time zones align and act without a live meeting.
• Represent the company in person with senior users and partners, explaining hard technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Write and review code, and hold the quality bar. You own what you ship regardless of how it was produced, and you hold AI-assisted and hand-written code to the same standard.
• Use AI tools as part of how you work day to day, and turn that leverage into reusable tooling and workflows that speed up everyone around you.
• Partner with Engineering Management, Product, and go-to-market teams across regions on long-term vision and roadmap.
• Teach and mentor engineers as the APAC team grows.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Written communication

Distributed teams

AI tools

Decision making

Job description

Singapore-based APAC founding-engineer role anchored in our APAC strategy for agentic commerce. As one of the first engineers on the ground, you will shape the direction and localization of the product for APAC markets.

You will own architecture end-to-end, engage directly with strategic users across regions, write clear technical documents, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship fast and safely.