Staff Engineer, Agentic Commerce

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups use Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

AI agents are starting to shop buy and pay on behalf of people and businesses. Agentic commerce is how Stripe makes that safe reliable and ubiquitous for both agents and sellers. Were building this from close to zero and its critical that we make our offerings globally available including to many of our most strategic users in APAC.

This role anchors that work in the region based in our Singapore office. As one of the first engineers on the ground you will shape agentic commerce broadly and how it localizes to APAC specifically.

What youll do

Youll set technical direction for agentic commerce in APAC and build it. This is a founding-engineer role in a new area: high ownership ambiguous problems and users who are inventing their businesses alongside us. Because youll work many time zones from the core team youll operate with a high degree of autonomy. Stripe generally prizes clear writing and this role is no exception: crisp documents are a particularly effective way to collaborate across time zones.

Youll also spend real time with users. Some of the most important agentic commerce partners in the world are in APAC and youll be in the room with them understanding what theyre trying to build turning that into architecture and shipping it back to them fast.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction for agentic commerce in APAC end to end from early design through production and adoption.
• Be the prime mover on large ambiguous projects: break the problem down for parallel work make fast product and architecture calls and clear the blockers that would otherwise stall the team.
• Operate with high autonomy across time zones. Make sound decisions independently and know when and how to escalate.
• Work directly with strategic users. Drive high-stakes conversations understand what they need and translate it into systems we can build.
• Write crisp technical documents proposals design docs decision records that let people in other time zones align and act without a live meeting.
• Represent Stripe in person with senior users and partners explaining hard technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Write and review code and hold the quality bar. You own what you ship regardless of how it was produced and you hold AI-assisted and hand-written code to the same standard.
• Use AI tools as part of how you work day to day and turn that leverage into reusable tooling and workflows that speed up everyone around you.
• Partner with Engineering Management Product and go-to-market teams across regions on long-term vision and roadmap.
• Teach and mentor engineers as the APAC team grows.

Who you are

Were looking for someone with the experience and skills below. If you meet the minimum requirements wed love to hear from you the preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 10 years of software engineering experience still hands-on with architecture and code.
• Track record as the technical lead on a complex external-facing product or platform.
• Deep software architecture experience and sound judgment about tradeoffs under ambiguity.
• Proven ability to work independently and drive projects to completion with little oversight ideally across time zones or distributed teams.
• Superb written communication. You write documents clear enough that decisions get made async without you present.
• Strong in-person and verbal communication including in high-stakes conversations with senior strategic users.
• Comfort working directly with users: listening earning trust and turning their needs into technical direction.
• Usage of AI tools as a standard part of daily delivery holding their output to the same bar as your own and getting more capable over time.
• Ability to build alignment across teams and functions without direct authority.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in payments fintech or commerce infrastructure.
• Experience building for APAC markets or fluency in the regions commerce landscape and languages.
• Experience with AI agents LLM-driven products or the protocols that let software transact autonomously.
• A history of taking early-stage products from zero to adoption.
• Experience as a founding or early engineer on a new team or product.