Software Engineer - Financial Products, Global Payment

About the role

The Global Payment Tech team is the core engine behind ByteDance's global payment and financial services, covering payment acquiring, wallets, financial products, insurance and foreign exchange for users and merchants worldwide. It spans engineering, data and AI, building high-concurrency, highly available systems across multi-currency, multi-market complexity and embedding AI into risk control, credit decisioning and operations automation. This role builds overseas financial products and solutions for consumers supporting global business, within the international payment platform.

Key responsibilities

• Build overseas financial products and solutions suitable for consumers, and take part in the international payment platform's system design, research and development and technological innovation.
• Design future-oriented architectures for complex payment systems, mastering large-scale distributed systems and considering development, operation, maintenance and reliability costs.
• Identify gaps and bottlenecks in current businesses and systems and propose solutions that improve customer experience, performance and stability.
• Take part in designing and reviewing technical projects, evaluating quality and promoting better teamwork efficiency and R&D quality.

Required profile

• Experience designing and developing high-availability, distributed large-scale systems, with a solid programming foundation and good coding habits.
• Practical experience building distributed systems with high availability and financial security, and a professional attitude toward online business security.
• Strong project management, communication and coordination skills across teams, with a result-oriented approach.
• Preferred: at least 4 years of experience in a large-scale internet business, fintech or online payment experience, and international team experience.

Required skills

• Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Golang, C++ or PHP.
• In-depth understanding of distributed, cache, message, search and recommendation mechanisms, applied to real problems.
• Excellent experience in online positioning and problem solving.