Software Engineer Intern

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. The Payment Network team in Global Payment ensures a secure, professional and efficient overseas payment solution, helping businesses to unblock payment channels and effectively assisting overseas business and product expansion. This includes tasks such as building general service capabilities, payment instruction orchestration engine, optimizing the smart channel router to choose the optimum channel by ML or Rules, upgrading the core channel pay system to support the high volumes, highly available and flexible handling the abnormal transactions, upgrading the smart operation for monitoring, analysis, attribution and half-automatic handling the online issues, etc. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. 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. Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with hands-on experience in developing fundamental skills and exploring potential career paths. A vibrant blend of social events and enriching development workshops will be available for you to explore. Here, you will utilize your knowledge in real-world scenarios while laying a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. It runs for 12 weeks. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date). Summer Start Dates: - May 11th, 2026 - May 18th, 2026 - May 26th, 2026 - June 8th, 2026 - June 22nd, 2026 Responsibilities - Develop high-quality software design and architecture; - Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle; - Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code; - Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting; - Review and debug code; Perform validation and verification testing; - Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to fix and improve our products; - Document development phases and monitor systems; - Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies; Minimum Qualifications: - Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Graduate/Master Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as Java/Go/C++/C#/Python; - Excellent proficiency in backend server development and expertise in relational databases； - Strong analytical thinking and exceptional attention to detail. - Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026. Preferred Qualifications: - Relevant internship experience with hands-on exposure to the tech stack - Basic understanding of the payment industry and risk vendors By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy