Senior Backend Engineer, Payment Platform & Scale

BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance, founded in 2012, pursues a mission to inspire creativity and enrich life with global products like TikTok, CapCut, and more. This role focuses on building robust merchant payment platforms within a fast-growing tech landscape, delivering secure and scalable financial systems.

Join ByteDance to drive critical payment modules, ensure reliability, and contribute to innovative financial engineering while working in a dynamic, international team.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java/Go with backend frameworks and distributed systems.
• Experience with high-concurrency processing and core system design.
• Deep understanding of high-availability, data consistency, and fund risk controls.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of merchant payment business scenarios across the full payment lifecycle.
• Develop and optimize payment modules covering onboarding, processing, settlement, revenue sharing, billing reconciliation, fee calculation, and tax invoicing.
• Drive core system optimization and technical upgrades for secure, stable operations.
• Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and high availability.
• Strengthen financial risk control and industry compliance across payment systems.
• Adopt advanced technologies and engineering practices to boost R&D efficiency and operational performance.

Skills

Java/Go backend

Distributed architecture

Financial-grade systems

Tools

Caching

Message queues

Databases

Job description

ByteDance, founded in 2012, pursues a mission to inspire creativity and enrich life with global products like TikTok, CapCut, and more. This role focuses on building robust merchant payment platforms within a fast-growing tech landscape, delivering secure and scalable financial systems.

Join ByteDance to drive critical payment modules, ensure reliability, and contribute to innovative financial engineering while working in a dynamic, international team.