Backend Engineer, Search Growth Rec Architecture (ByteDance Singapore)

BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Positive team atmosphere

Flat organization

Industry experts

Job summary

ByteDance is hiring for the Recommendation Architecture Team to build and optimize the architecture for a large-scale recommendation system, delivering stable experiences for users across search and video contexts.

The role focuses on building high-performance online services, data pipelines for candidate and profile generation, training examples, and distributed storage frameworks, with collaboration across teams in a fast-growing tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and at least 1 year of scalable systems experience.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Java or Golang.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high performance online services for search and recommendation.
• Create efficient data pipelines for candidate and profile generation, training examples, and real-time online training.
• Develop globalized large-scale recommendation systems.
• Design and develop high-performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.

Job highlights

Positive team atmosphere, Flat organization, Industry experts

About the team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We cover almost all short-text recommendation scenarios, such as search suggestions, the video-related search bar, and comment entities. Our recommendation system supports personalized sorting for queries, optimizing the user experience and improving search awareness.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high performance online services for search amd recommendation system;
• Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc;
• Build globalized large-scale recommendation system;
• Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, with at least 1 year of experience building scalable system;
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive;
• Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.