Tech Lead- User Growth (Paid Acquisition)

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 Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

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.

Team intro:
Paid Acquisition team intro
Paid Acquisition team plays a key role in TikTok User Growth strategy. We leverage a diverse range of incentives and design various gameplays to power the acquisition, retention and activation of TikTok users. We build end-to-end system to deliver user campaigns, from user approach and engagement activities, to resource allocation and benefit distribution. Day to day we confront the challenge of complicated engineering issues, e.g. design data-intensitve architecture, ensure data consistency across multiple data centers, guarantee fund security, etc. We work closely with data and algorithm teams to build models to better understand the world's biggest and most diverse user base; and also build platform foundations to improve the efficiency of delivering new product strategies.
Responsibilities:
-Design and develop high-performant, high-reliable and highly reusable distributed and parallel systems that power growth features for various TikTok's products.
-Integrate with multiple internal and external services to deliver growth features end-to-end.
-Manage individual projects and tasks priorities and deadlines with high-quality and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree or higher degree in Computer Science or related major, with 5+ years working experience.
-Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Java, Go, C++, Python.
-In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka/MQ etc.
-Strong experience and ability in system problem analysis, able to solve complex system problems.
-Experience in big data analysis technology is preferred.

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.