Global Payments Backend Engineer Intern

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Housing allowance

10 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time

Job summary

ByteDance is offering a campus internship in the Global Payments group to build and operate backend services for global money movement. You will work on standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, settlement, merchant services, and billing, connecting business systems with payment platform capabilities in multiple markets and partners.

You will gain hands-on experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development, testing, and operational automation while collaborating

Qualifications

• Pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Proficiency in at least one general‑purpose programming language such as Go, Java, C++, or Python.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, OS, databases, networks, or distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and craft practical solutions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Python

Education

Undergraduate in Computer Science

Job description

ByteDance is offering a campus internship in the Global Payments group to build and operate backend services for global money movement. You will work on standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, settlement, merchant services, and billing, connecting business systems with payment platform capabilities in multiple markets and partners.

You will gain hands-on experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development, testing, and operational automation while collaborating