Payment Risk & Compliance Backend Engineer

ByteDance

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 162,000 - 317,000

Full time

10 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) matching
Parental leave
Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance's Global Payments team is building a platform to deliver cross-border payment solutions across TikTok, Helo, Games and Education. We are seeking a self-driven software engineer to advance payment risk and compliance backends, protecting users, merchants and the platform in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

You will partner with global engineering and product teams to set priorities, define deliverables and drive initiatives from design to landing, building scalable, reliable

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant major.
  • Experience building modern payment systems; Risk & Compliance is a bonus.
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages (Go, C/C++, Java, Python, etc.).
  • Experience in distributed systems, backend API development.
  • Good product sense; experience building large-scale consumer-facing products.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in payment risk & compliance backend development to provide the best payment experience to billions of users.
  • Work with stakeholders to decide project priorities, define product deliverables, and drive initiatives from execution to landing.

Skills

Payment systems experience
Risk & Compliance knowledge
Programming languages proficiency
Distributed systems
Backend API development
Product sense
Communication skills

Education

BS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / related

Job description

ByteDance's Global Payments team is building a platform to deliver cross-border payment solutions across TikTok, Helo, Games and Education. We are seeking a self-driven software engineer to advance payment risk and compliance backends, protecting users, merchants and the platform in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

You will partner with global engineering and product teams to set priorities, define deliverables and drive initiatives from design to landing, building scalable, reliable

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