Software Engineer Intern (Global Payment) - 2027 Summer

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut, and Pico, as well as platforms specific to the China market, such as Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover, and connect—and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity, and enrich life. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people, leading with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an impact in a rapidly growing tech company.

Why Join ByteDance

At ByteDance, we work towards inspiring creativity and enriching life every day. By fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless.

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 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.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently 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++, Python, or a similar language.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks, or distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze complex problems, break them into clear components, and develop practical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half).
• Eligibility for housing allowance if not working 100% remote.

Pay

The hourly rate range for this position is $45–$45.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe, and so does our workplace. We celebrate diverse voices and strive to create an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.