Global Payments Backend Intern

Bytedance; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

ByteDance is hiring for an internship in the Global Payments team based in San Jose. You will design and develop backend services for global payment systems, building standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, and settlement.

You will work with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to deliver end-to-end payment solutions and improve system performance and security. The internship offers practical experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply learning to real-world

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (Go, Java, C++, Python, etc.).
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, networks, or distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and develop practical solutions.
• Preferred: strong communication and collaborative skills.

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 money-movement 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 financial transaction systems.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, testing, and debugging.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and operations teams to solve problems.
• Participate in design reviews, production-readiness reviews, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Learn fundamentals of payment systems and contribute ideas with measurable impact.

Education

Undergraduate in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Go

Java

C++

Python

Job description

ByteDance is hiring for an internship in the Global Payments team based in San Jose. You will design and develop backend services for global payment systems, building standardized capabilities across payments, refunds, and settlement.

You will work with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to deliver end-to-end payment solutions and improve system performance and security. The internship offers practical experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply learning to real-world