Senior Software Engineer, Search Platform & Backend

TikTok; Os; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for TikTok Search to build a robust, scalable search infrastructure and help drive product features. The team emphasizes fast iteration, reliability, and user-focused performance improvements.

Qualified candidates will have 5+ years of software development experience, a strong background in backend services for large-scale apps, and a CS/CE/EE degree. Join us to shape search for a global audience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/CE/EE or similar.

Responsibilities

• Support business development of TikTok Search and provide the best search experience.
• Product development: support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and growth.
• Performance & stability: build a fast and robust Search product by optimizing performance and service stability.
• Search engineering infrastructure: guarantee reasonable architecture governance for the overall system.
• Search offline processing: construct a high freshness multimedia index and offline data support for Search.
• Bachelors or advanced degree in CS CE EE or similar.
• Industry experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• 5+ years' experience in software development.

Skills

5+ years of software development

Backend services

Large-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/CE/EE or similar

Job description

TikTok is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for TikTok Search to build a robust, scalable search infrastructure and help drive product features. The team emphasizes fast iteration, reliability, and user-focused performance improvements.

Qualified candidates will have 5+ years of software development experience, a strong background in backend services for large-scale apps, and a CS/CE/EE degree. Join us to shape search for a global audience.