Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Global E-Commerce Data Intelligence

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Mountain View, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.

Global e-commerce is content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products at affordable prices. Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, active and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive stable and reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

The data insights team is responsible for development of data analytics & data-empowered platform capabilities across global e-commerce. Our mission is to empower our users to leverage and extract actionable insights from data to maximize their potential and efficiency on the global e-commerce platform. In essence, we want to extract facts, attribute causes and predict the future from oceans of data; and our fundamental goals are to reflect business impact, leverage data to support key decisions by lowering decision making complexity and optimising decision making efficacy and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

- Develop data insights capabilities for global e-commerce platform, enabling users to extract actionable insights and intelligence from data to maximize their revenue potential and decision-making efficacy.
- Collaborate closely with product and data teams to evolve data-empowered capabilities in data visualization, operational analysis, intelligent diagnosis, product/strategy optimization, market intelligence etc verticals.
- Architect and develop efficient and highly reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications for e-commerce products.
- Code optimization to improve scalability, reliability, security and performance of web applications.
- Drive continuous improvements to engineering excellence and efficiency, lead research & development into key areas of optimizations for backend systems and services, including data security, systems architecture and computational efficiency & scalability.
- Drive and shape the growth of a highly effective product engineering team, provide professional and technical leadership to support the professional growth of individual team members

Qualifications

- B.S or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions.
- 5+ years experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python/Scala/C++, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, and at least one of React/Vue/Angular and packaging frameworks like Webpack/Rollup/BaBel/AST/Gulp. Qualified fresh graduates would also be considered.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
- Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.
- In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.
- Exhibits strong product / business understanding, able to align product engineering directions to support current and future product and business evolutions.

IDEAL CANDIDATE
- Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver.
- Deeply passionate about software coding/development and building great mobile/web applications.
- Ability to lead independent research to solve complex technical problems.
- Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.
- Professional level proficiency in written and spoken English, clear communicator and open to receiving from and giving constructive feedback to the team.

TikTok 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 TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. 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.

TikTok 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 [email protected]

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $175750 - $266000 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.