Global Payments Backend Engineer – AI‑Powered, Scalable

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is hiring for a graduate-level backend role in Singapore focusing on global payments infrastructure. You will design, develop, and operate backend services, building standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, settlements, and billing, and delivering end-to-end payment solutions across markets and partners.

You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and external partners to solve complex problems, improve system scalability, security, and

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language: Go, Java, C++, Python.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks, or distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and develop practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate high-quality backend services for global payment systems.
• Build standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, settlement, merchant services, billing, and other critical money-movement workflows.
• Develop end-to-end payment solutions by connecting business systems with payment platform capabilities across multiple services, markets, and partners.
• Improve the scalability, availability, performance, security, and observability of systems processing high-volume financial transactions.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate software development, testing, debugging, incident analysis, and operational automation.
• Explore AI-native capabilities and agent-based workflows that improve payment operations, engineering productivity, risk detection, and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, operations teams, and external payment partners to solve complex technical and business problems.
• Participate in technical design, code reviews, production-readiness reviews, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Learn the fundamentals of payment systems and contribute ideas that create measurable customer, merchant, and business impact.

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Python

DS/Algorithms

Job description

ByteDance is hiring for a graduate-level backend role in Singapore focusing on global payments infrastructure. You will design, develop, and operate backend services, building standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, settlements, and billing, and delivering end-to-end payment solutions across markets and partners.

You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and external partners to solve complex problems, improve system scalability, security, and