Technical Lead, Agentic Commerce Engineering

About the role

We are seeking a Technical Lead, Agentic Commerce Engineering to join our team and contribute to shaping the future of global commerce. Key responsibilities include defining and building the infrastructure for AI agent-led payments, integrating with AI agents, and architecting APIs and SDKs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of secure checkout and payment APIs for AI agents.
• 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 to help shape practical, interoperable approaches to agent-led payments.
• Architect and ship merchant-facing APIs and SDKs 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.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, influence cross-functional teams, and make clear tradeoffs in ambiguous or emerging product areas.

Requirements

An opinionated voice to help shape the future of agentic commerce, outstanding communication skills, 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud-native engineering experience on AWS, GCP, Azure, practical understanding of AI-agent systems, proven technical leadership experience, and experience designing API-first platforms with clear contracts, versioning, documentation, testing strategies, predictable error handling, secure integration patterns, and strong developer experience are required.

Qualifications

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. 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 is a plus. 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 is also a plus.

Skills

Opinionated voice, outstanding communication skills, 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud-native engineering experience on AWS, GCP, Azure, practical understanding of AI-agent systems, proven technical leadership experience, and experience designing API-first platforms with clear contracts, versioning, documentation, testing strategies, predictable error handling, secure integration patterns, and strong developer experience.

Benefits

Worldpay offers competitive compensation, with a good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire being $127,500.00-$192,525.00. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role's responsibilities, level, and geographic location. The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate's experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary.

Pay

The good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $127,500.00-$192,525.00.

Schedule

Full-time.