Backend Engineer, Global Payments Stability

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance’s Global Payment team in Singapore is seeking a Backend Software Engineer (Stability) to strengthen a highly available, high‑performance payments platform powering TikTok and other ByteDance services. You will design and implement end‑to‑end stability guarantees, respond to production issues, and lead critical projects across Global Payments subdomains.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, strong backend programming skills (C/C++/Java/Go/Python),

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical background, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with high-concurrency, complex business systems or service management.
• Proficient in at least one backend language: C/C++/Java/Go/Python.
• Strong analytical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Positive, optimistic, strong sense of responsibility, self-driven, and good team communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the critical architecture of Global Payments, designing a highly available, high‑performance, and highly maintainable system to ensure stability and globalization.
• Design and implement a guarantee system for end‑to‑end stability of payment business.
• Respond to production issues to guarantee payment service uptime.
• Lead critical technical special projects across overall Global Payments subdomains.
• Enhance system stability, security, compliance, and technical efficiency.
• Architect the entire technical infrastructure for Global Payments.

Skills

High-concurrency systems

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Backend programming

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical background

Job description

Backend Software Engineer (Stability) - Global Infrastructure & SRE - Global Payment - Singapore

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Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A198040

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Responsibilities

About Global PaymentThe Global Payment team of ByteDance provides payment solutions - including payment acquisitions, disbursements, transaction monitoring, payment method management, foreign exchange conversion, accounting, reconciliations, and so on to ensure that our users have a smooth and secure payment experience on ByteDance platforms including TikTok.We are Global Infra and SRE team, serving Global Payments through stability assurance and technical reconstruction.The working scope includes system stability, security and compliance, technical efficiency enhancement, as well as the entire technical architecture as a whole. Leading critical technical special projects across overall Global Payments subdomains.Responsibilities:- Optimize the critical architecture of Global Payments, design a highly available, high performance, and highly maintainable system to ensure the stability and globalization of Global Payments- Design and implement the guarantee system of end-to-end stability of payment business- Respond to the production issues to guarantee the payment service uptime.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.- Good programming experience with high concurrency/complex business system/service management- Proficient in at least one of the following backend languages: C/C++/Java/Go/Python- Strong analytical thinking and excellent troubleshooting- Positive and optimistic, strong sense of responsibility, self-driven, serious, good team communication and collaboration skillsPreferred Qualifications:- Payment industry background is a nice to have

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