
Responsibilities
The Global Payments team builds the financial infrastructure that powers commerce at global scale. We enable reliable, secure, and seamless money movement for customers and merchants across markets. Within the broader team, you may work in one of two closely connected areas: - Payment Product builds standardized platform capabilities across payments, refunds, settlement, merchant services, billing, and related financial workflows. The team develops reusable products and infrastructure for multiple businesses, markets, and payment methods. - Payment Solutions partners closely with business and product teams to design and deliver end-to-end payment solutions. The team connects commerce systems with payment platform capabilities, transforming complex requirements into scalable and reliable customer and merchant experiences. - Together, these teams combine deep payment expertise, large-scale distributed systems, and AI-powered engineering to build the next generation of global commerce infrastructure. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. Our internship program offers students hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges while building a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals. Candidates may apply to a maximum of two positions across Our Company and its affiliates globally. Applications will be considered in the order they are submitted. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume, including your start and end dates. -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 -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 Qualification -Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
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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, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. 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 - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and 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. Join us.
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. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.