Replit

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce & Payments

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13 hours ago
Foster City, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$290k - $360k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the architecture and technical roadmap for Replit’s agentic commerce platform.
  • Lead end-to-end purchasing experiences through Replit Agent, including intent interpretation, pricing and terms, authorization, purchasing, and fulfillment verification.
  • Build extensible integrations with merchants, software vendors, and service providers.
  • Extend Stripe and other payment capabilities to support new purchasing experiences.
  • Design agent-facing APIs and tools with secure credentials, scoped permissions, spending limits, and confirmation controls.
  • Partner with product and security on role-based access, approval workflows, purchasing policies, and auditable transaction histories.
  • Own the lifecycle after checkout, including provisioning, access, order and subscription state, renewals, cancellations, refunds, receipts, and reconciliation.
  • Improve transaction reliability through idempotency, verified events, durable state, safe retries, and partial-failure recovery.
  • Lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives, define milestones, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and own production operations.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership on complex customer-facing products or platforms from architecture through launch and production operation across multiple teams.
  • Strong hands-on engineering and system design skills, including API design, data modeling, distributed workflows, and evolution of existing systems.
  • Experience building extensible third-party integrations and handling asynchronous events, duplicate requests, partial failures, and changing provider capabilities.
  • Strong product judgment for simplifying complex multi-step workflows while balancing delivery speed, correctness, and flexibility.
  • Security-conscious experience with authentication, authorization, credentials, sensitive data, and actions performed on behalf of users or organizations.
  • Ability to align engineering and cross-functional partners on technical direction and drive execution without relying on reporting authority.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving architecture, implementation, and operations beyond individual projects.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools while maintaining responsibility for code correctness, security, and maintainability.
  • Preferred experience with commerce platforms, marketplaces, purchasing or procurement systems, or multi-vendor products.
  • Preferred experience with agent tool calling, multi-step agent workflows, reliable-action evaluations, payment lifecycles, enterprise purchasing controls, Stripe, payment providers, developer platforms, or partner integration ecosystems.
  • Bonus experience with agentic-commerce protocols, MCP, delegated authorization, catalogs, pricing and availability, entitlements, automated provisioning, recurring or usage-based costs, renewals, international purchasing, or multi-provider transactions.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 401(k) program with a 4% match for US employees.
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
  • Flexible time off and holidays.
  • Commuter benefits for in-office US employees.
  • Monthly wellness stipend.
  • Autonomous work environment.
  • In-office setup reimbursement for in-office employees.
  • Quarterly team gatherings and in-office amenities.
Replit

About Replit

501-1,000 employees

Replit builds a browser-based software development platform with an AI coding agent, collaborative IDE, and built-in deployment for individuals, teams, and businesses. It offers freemium and paid plans for developers and organizations, plus hosting and enterprise features used to create and run web applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Replit is privately held and serves a global user base.

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