Technical Lead, AI-Driven Agentic Commerce

Global Payments Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Technical Lead for Agentic Commerce Engineering to shape a new payments infrastructure at a global scale. You will own the technical direction, guide architecture reviews, and lead a hands-on squad building secure checkout APIs and agentic tokenization flows.

You will drive API governance, collaborate with internal and external partners, and mentor engineers across distributed services, ensuring reliability, security, and exceptional developer experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in software engineering with distributed systems ownership.
• Experience architecting merchant-facing APIs and SDKs.
• Strong cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure and cost-aware design.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a greenfield agentic commerce squad.
• Architect and ship APIs and SDKs with strong developer experience.
• Mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions across teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed services

APIs & SDKs

Cloud-native engineering

AI agent systems

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Technical Lead for Agentic Commerce Engineering to shape a new payments infrastructure at a global scale. You will own the technical direction, guide architecture reviews, and lead a hands-on squad building secure checkout APIs and agentic tokenization flows.

You will drive API governance, collaborate with internal and external partners, and mentor engineers across distributed services, ensuring reliability, security, and exceptional developer experience.