ByteDance

Software Engineer, Payment Risk - Global Payment - Global Payment

ByteDance
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1 day ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and build tools for risk-signal monitoring, anomaly discovery, transaction and account investigation, and entity relationship analysis.
  • Develop and productionize LLM-powered applications and AI agents for intelligence collection, retrieval, investigation, evidence synthesis, and report generation.
  • Build platforms and workflows connecting risk-signal collection, proactive detection, intelligence enrichment, investigation, and risk strategy feedback.
  • Own the technical design and delivery of services, data pipelines, and APIs while improving reliability, performance, observability, and data access controls.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, data, and risk teams on priorities, design reviews, code reviews, technical knowledge sharing, and production improvements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Approximately 5 years of professional software engineering experience designing, delivering, and operating production systems or substantial components.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Java, with sound knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software design, testing, and debugging.
  • Experience building backend services, data-intensive applications, or analytical platforms, including proficiency in SQL and complex-dataset investigation.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical designs and own delivery through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: experience in payments, fraud detection, risk management, trust and safety, risk monitoring, intelligence analysis, or investigation workflows.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with LLM applications or AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, workflow orchestration, and model-output evaluation.
  • Preferred: experience with risk monitoring systems, intelligence platforms, investigation tools, analytical workbenches, knowledge retrieval, entity or graph analysis, large-scale data processing, batch or streaming pipelines, and distributed systems.
  • Preferred: demonstrated impact on risk discovery, analyst productivity, intelligence quality, internal-tool adoption, or technical support for other engineers.
ByteDance

About ByteDance

10,000+ employees

ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.

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