Staff Engineer, Agentic Commerce — APAC Lead

EngineersOfAI; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe seeks a founding-engineer level leader to anchor agentic commerce in APAC from our Singapore office. You will set technical direction, own end-to-end architecture, and work directly with strategic users across the region to translate needs into scalable systems.

As a senior engineer, you will write clear design and decision documents, ship high-impact features, and mentor the growing APAC engineering team. This role offers significant ownership and global impact.

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.

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 escalate.
• 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 Stripe in person with senior users and partners, explaining hard technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Communication

Distributed systems

Technical writing

Job description

Stripe seeks a founding-engineer level leader to anchor agentic commerce in APAC from our Singapore office. You will set technical direction, own end-to-end architecture, and work directly with strategic users across the region to translate needs into scalable systems.

As a senior engineer, you will write clear design and decision documents, ship high-impact features, and mentor the growing APAC engineering team. This role offers significant ownership and global impact.