Technical Lead, Agentic Commerce Engineering - (London)

Global Payments; Atlanta (GA); On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments seeks a Technical Lead for Agentic Commerce Engineering to shape autonomous commerce infrastructure. You will direct AI-agent integrations, secure checkout APIs, and merchant-facing SDKs with strong developer experience.

You will lead a greenfield squad, balance speed with security and reliability, and mentor engineers while driving architectural decisions in a complex enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with distributed services and APIs.
• Experience in cloud-native engineering across AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Strong ability to design secure, auditable payment flows for AI agents.
• Proven leadership in architecture reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional influence.
• Experience designing API-first platforms with clear contracts and docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure checkout and payment APIs for AI agents.
• Architect merchant-facing APIs and SDKs with clear contracts and sandbox flows.
• Set technical direction for a greenfield agentic commerce squad.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and enforce engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud-native

AI-agent systems

Leadership

Developer experience

Security

Reliability

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Technical Lead, Agentic Commerce Engineering to join our ever-evolving agentic commerce engineering team and help shape the future of global commerce.

What you’ll own

We are building the future of autonomous commerce. As AI agents begin to discover products, compare options, build carts, and initiate purchases on behalf of consumers, the payments layer needs new infrastructure for trust, identity, user intent, authentication, tokenization, fraud signals, and real-time transaction visibility.

AI Agent Integrations

Lead the design and delivery of secure checkout and payment APIs that AI agents can invoke reliably and deterministically, including support for concepts such as UCP, ACP, AP2, agentic tokens, delegated credentials, verifiable intent, and MPP.

API & SDK Development

Architect and ship merchant-facing APIs and SDKs that are easy to integrate, with clear contracts, predictable error handling, strong documentation, sandbox-friendly flows, and excellent developer experience.

Champion developer experience by designing for discoverability, fast time-to-first-transaction, reliable testing, and feedback loops from merchants, partners, and external developers.

Contribute to API governance and platform standards across the wider engineering organization.

Technical Leadership

Set technical direction for a greenfield agentic commerce squad, balancing speed, interoperability, security, reliability, and long-term platform extensibility.

Provide hands-on leadership through architecture reviews, design decisions, code reviews, mentoring, incident learning, and engineering standards.

Help recruit and develop AI-forward engineers who are curious, high-agency, and excited to build in a category that is still being defined.

What you’ll bring

• An opinionated voice to help shape the future of agentic commerce
• Outstanding communication skills, you will know how to read the room and know how to build solid working relationships at all levels
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and production ownership of distributed services, APIs, or transaction-processing platforms that require high reliability, security, observability, and operational readiness
• Strong cloud-native engineering experience on AWS, GCP, Azure or comparable public cloud environments, with the ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions across scalability, resilience, deployment, monitoring, and cost
• Practical understanding of AI-agent systems, including how agents use tools, APIs, structured inputs and outputs, delegated permissions, and external services to complete tasks, plus the judgment to design safe, deterministic, and auditable payment flows around those behaviors
• Proven technical leadership experience, including architecture ownership, mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, influencing cross-functional teams, and making clear tradeoffs in ambiguous or emerging product areas
• Experience designing API-first platforms with clear contracts, versioning, documentation, testing strategies, predictable error handling, secure integration patterns, and strong developer experience
• It’s a bonus if you have Experience in payments, fintech, commerce platforms, card-not-present processing, checkout, gateways, tokenization, 3DS/SCA, fraud/risk systems, dispute workflows, merchant reporting, or other real-time money movement platforms
• Experience with LLM-powered applications, AI agent frameworks, tool-calling systems, MCP-style integrations, A2A-style protocols, or standards work related to agent identity, delegated authority, verifiable intent, safe AI integration, or agentic commerce
• Public engineering presence or ecosystem involvement, such as meaningful GitHub contributions, open-source participation, standards work, technical writing, conference/forum attendance and active participation, community engagement, or experience building greenfield products in complex enterprise environments

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces, and we’re currently operating across two Workday application systems.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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