Payment Backend Engineer Intern

Who Are We?

HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.
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Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.
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Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.
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In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.

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Overview:

Ever wondering what happens when you perform a top-up of crystals in Genshin Impact? The Global Payment team at HoYoverse provides a unified cross-border payment solution for all of our products. From connecting to various payment methods, fighting against fraudulent transactions, providing insights on revenue analysis, to meeting local government regulations & international standards, our systems cover a wide range of mission-critical functionalities.

As we continue to invest heavily in technologies and improve our core systems, we are looking for highly talented and motivated individuals to join us as a backend engineer. In this job, you are expected to gain valuable hands-on experience on building highly-scalable distributed systems, as well as exposure to the game publishing & payment industry.

This is a 3–6 month internship designed for final-year students, with the potential to be considered for a full-time graduate role upon successful completion and performance.

What You Will Do:

• Participate in the development and maintenance of our global payment systems, delivering a superb cross-platform checkout experience for users worldwide.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of our internal finance / accounting software, providing a full-lifecycle solution for our funds flow.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers and business / operation teams, to ensure the timely delivery of multiple large-scale projects.
• Ensure the quality of software delivery through various methods, including unit tests, integration tests and stress tests.
• Follow best practices in software development lifecycle, such as CI/CD pipeline, data quality checks, grayscale deployment, multi-cluster environment.
• Safely store, process and transmit sensitive user data using industry-standard techniques, such as envelope encryption, HSM devices, KMS services.

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree (or above) in Computer Science or related fields. Previous internship experience in tech / Internet company will be a plus.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals, such as algorithms, data structures, network, operating system, database, security, etc.
• Good understanding of web backend development concepts, such as API endpoint, microservice, etc.
• Proficient with at least one programming language. Golang is preferred but not required.
• Passionate about new technologies and always willing to learn.
• Be a strong team player, and able to communicate well in our diverse & cross-functional team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and advanced Chinese to liaise with teams and review internal documentation.

We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.