Staff Engineer, Agentic Commerce

Job description

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies — from the world's 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 everyone's 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. We're building this from close to zero, and it's 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 you'll do You'll 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 you'll work many time zones from the core team, you'll 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. You'll also spend real time with users. Some of the most important agentic commerce partners in the world are in APAC, and you'll be in the room with them — understanding what they're 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 We're looking for someone with the experience and skills below. If you meet the minimum requirements, we'd 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 wo