Backend Engineer - Data AML Engine

TikTok Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in Singapore is seeking a skilled software developer to enhance its recommendation systems and drive AI integration. The successful candidate will build tools for improved performance, maintain robust systems at scale, and analyze user needs. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and programming experience with languages like C/C++, Python, and Golang is required. The role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.
• Strong programming and coding experience with at least one modern language such as C/C++, Golang, or Python.
• At least 1 year of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Build an effective toolchain to improve development performance.
• Introduce new AI technologies to the online system, supporting billions of users.
• Improve system reliability, managing challenges of scale and complexity.
• Analyze user needs and develop software solutions using computer science principles.

Skills

Programming in C/C++

Python

Analytical abilities

Problem solving

Good communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

Spark

Elasticsearch

Django

Flask

React

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team The mission of our AML team is to push next‑generation machine learning algorithms and platform for the recommendation system, ads ranking and search ranking in our company. We also drive substantial impact for core businesses of the company.

• Build an effective toolchain to improve development performance;
• Introduce new AI technologies to our online system, support billions of users all over the world;
• Improve the reliability of the system, manage the challenges of scale and complexity;
• Squeeze extreme performance from hardware and handle huge amount of requests;
• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs;
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis;
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures;
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements;

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.
• Strong programming and coding experience with at least one modern language such as C/C++, Golang, Python
• Experience contributing to the large scale distributed systems, multi-tenant systems (architecture, reliability and scaling)
• Strong analytical abilities and problem solving
• Good communication, self‑motivation, engineering practice, documentation, etc.
• At least 1 year of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with large‑scale distributed systems like Spark and Elasticsearch;
• Familiar with the web technologies, such as Django / Flask / React.