Technical Lead, AI-Powered Agentic Commerce

Worldpay; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay seeks a Technical Lead for Agentic Commerce Engineering to shape the infrastructure enabling autonomous, AI‑driven payments at global scale. You’ll lead the design of secure checkout APIs and merchant SDKs, while guiding architecture decisions across distributed services, identity, and fraud signals.

You will mentor engineers, drive API governance, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to create interoperable, reliable payment flows and a strong developer experience.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Define platform patterns for agent identity, delegated authority, user intent, authentication, tokenization, fraud signals, evidence records, reporting, and downstream payment integration.
• Partner with internal teams and external ecosystem participants, including standards groups and AI commerce partners, to help shape practical, interoperable approaches to agent‑led payments.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

AI agent systems

Distributed services

APIs & SDKs design

Cloud-native engineering

Technical leadership

Architecture ownership

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

APIs

Job description

Worldpay seeks a Technical Lead for Agentic Commerce Engineering to shape the infrastructure enabling autonomous, AI‑driven payments at global scale. You’ll lead the design of secure checkout APIs and merchant SDKs, while guiding architecture decisions across distributed services, identity, and fraud signals.

You will mentor engineers, drive API governance, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to create interoperable, reliable payment flows and a strong developer experience.