Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Payments

Worldpay; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce, to join our global payments team in the United States. You will help shape autonomous commerce by building secure backend services and APIs that enable AI agents, merchants, and platforms to transact in real time.

You will own features end-to-end, contribute to design reviews, and collaborate across product, security, fraud, and gateway teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years of software engineering and production services experience.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, distributed systems, or transaction-processing apps.
• Hands-on with cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and reliable deployment practices.
• Interest in AI agents and agentic workflows, with API call patterns and validation.
• Strong fundamentals in API design, testing, CI/CD, observability, security.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure checkout and payment APIs for AI agents.
• Develop backend services for real-time, high-trust payment workflows.
• Own features end-to-end from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and production readiness.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and fraud teams to deliver cross-system capabilities.

Skills

5+ years of software engineering

Production services & APIs

Cloud-based systems (AWS/GCP)

AI agents interest

API design, testing, CI/CD

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

SDKs

Developer tooling

Sandbox environments

GitHub projects

Open-source tools

Job description

Worldpay seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce, to join our global payments team in the United States. You will help shape autonomous commerce by building secure backend services and APIs that enable AI agents, merchants, and platforms to transact in real time.

You will own features end-to-end, contribute to design reviews, and collaborate across product, security, fraud, and gateway teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions in a fast-moving environment.