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Global Payments

End-to-end payment processing with APIs

Technical Lead - Agentic Commerce Engineering

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including architecture and production ownership of distributed services, APIs, or transaction-processing platforms requiring high reliability, security, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Strong cloud-native engineering experience on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or comparable public cloud environments, and the ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions across scalability, resilience, deployment, monitoring, and cost.
  • Practical understanding of AI-agent systems, including agents' use of tools, APIs, structured inputs and outputs, delegated permissions, and external services to complete tasks, plus 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 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 shape practical, interoperable approaches to agent-led payments.
  • Architect and ship merchant-facing APIs and software development kits that are easy to integrate, with clear contracts, predictable error handling, strong documentation, sandbox-friendly flows, and strong developer experience.
  • Design 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.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in payments, financial technology, 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 large language model-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 or forum attendance and active participation, community engagement, or experience building greenfield products in complex enterprise environments.

About the Company

Global Payments

End-to-end payment processing with APIs

Global Payments provides payment technology and software solutions that help businesses accept and process payments online and in person. It operates an end-to-end payment processing ecosystem, including issuing platforms connected to over 680 million cards and open APIs that let businesses build customized commerce solutions. Transactions flow through its system, and revenue comes from merchant transaction fees plus value-added software services such as fraud prevention, data analytics, and customer support. The company differentiates itself through a broad global network, an extensive set of APIs, and flexible partner and pricing models that cater to financial institutions, retailers, and merchants of all sizes. Its goal is to enable smooth, secure, and scalable payments within the global commerce landscape, helping businesses grow while reducing costs and improving the customer experience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA
Founded
1967

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