Software Engineer Intern (Payment Architecture) - Global Payment - 2026 Summer(BS/MS)

About the position

The Global Payment team of Bytedance provides payment solutions - including payment acquisitions, disbursements, transaction monitoring, payment method management, foreign exchange conversion, accounting, reconciliations, and so on to ensure that our users have a smooth and secure payment experience on ByteDance platforms including TikTok. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in from May 2026 onwards. Internships at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance.

Responsibilities

• Combine domain knowledge of payment business and system architecture design capabilities to iteratively upgrade the global payment system architecture.
• Develop disaster tolerance and degradation strategies for various basic components used in the system to ensure the stability of system services.
• Build cross-region disaster tolerance capabilities for the global payment system. Under the premise of ensuring data security and compliance, ensure that the system can calmly face data center-level failures.
• Sort out business processes and dependencies, identify possible system bottlenecks in the system, and ensure stable operation during business peak periods such as Double 11 and Black Friday.
• Introduce new technologies and solutions to the team according to actual business needs.
• With one's own excellent project management and coordination and communication skills, be responsible for promoting key cross-team projects.