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Backend Engineer - Global Payment - San Jose

ByteDance

ByteDance

Software Engineering
San Jose, CA, USA
USD 136,800-359,720 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 3, 2025

Responsibilities

About Global Payment 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. Responsibilities: 1. Participate in the design and development of global payment systems, including account membership, merchant services, wallet products, and operational platforms. Take ownership of planning, architecture design, business requirement delivery, and business growth. 2. Conduct in-depth business scenario analysis to identify users’ payment pain points, leverage best practices in account membership, merchant services, wallet products, and operational platform design, and drive systematic product development to support rapid business growth. 3. Contribute to overall system architecture design, setup, and optimization. Enhance system performance and development efficiency to ensure high concurrency, reliability, maintainability, and scalability. Proactively address technical challenges during system iterations, safeguard online stability and fund security, and improve team productivity and delivery quality. 4. Maintain a strong end-to-end perspective and holistic system thinking. Identify shortcomings in existing systems, locate bottlenecks, and improve overall system performance and service stability. 5. Drive technical innovation and research to enable fast-paced business development and efficient product iteration.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Solid computer science fundamentals, with proficiency in data structures and algorithms, and the ability to apply them flexibly to real-world problems. - Extensive coding and code review experience with strong coding practices. Proficient in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Golang, C++, or PHP. - Prior development experience in relevant business areas (account membership, merchant services, wallet products) or in systems related to marketing, payments, transactions, or user growth. Preferred Qualifications: - Strong self-motivation, communication skills, organizational skills, and team spirit. - Fast learner with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for products. Excellent communication skills and outstanding collaboration ability.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request