Backend Engineer — Recommendation Infra & Platform

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is expanding its Recommendation Architecture Team in Singapore. The role focuses on building scalable, high-performance architecture for the recommendation system to deliver stability and optimal user experience across TikTok’s vast user base.

The team emphasizes improving engineering quality, developer infra for CI/CD, and applying architectural patterns that support rapid iteration in a large-scale environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Experience with C, C++, Java, or Go.
• Strong communication and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-performance, highly available architecture design, high-quality code implementation, and continuously improve engineering quality based on product and strategy requirements for complex business scenarios;
• Build a recommendation system analysis platform to provide product-level tool support for problem analysis and debugging;
• Thoroughly comb through existing business systems, identify and optimize weak links in the system, improve the overall architecture quality, service performance, and stability of the system;
• Abstract and precipitate common business architecture based on actual business conditions, improve the degree of basic capability reuse, and better support business rapid iteration.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

TikTok is expanding its Recommendation Architecture Team in Singapore. The role focuses on building scalable, high-performance architecture for the recommendation system to deliver stability and optimal user experience across TikTok’s vast user base.

The team emphasizes improving engineering quality, developer infra for CI/CD, and applying architectural patterns that support rapid iteration in a large-scale environment.