Backend Engineer - TikTok Recommendation Developer Infrastructure

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media company in Singapore is looking for an experienced architect to design high-performance recommendation systems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and over 3 years of experience in scalable systems. Proficiency in languages like C, C++, Java, or Golang is required. This position offers the chance to improve architecture quality and service performance in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Strong programming skills with languages like C, C++, Java, or Golang.
• Excellent communication skills and sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design high-performance and flexible architecture.
• Build a recommendation system analysis platform.
• Identify and optimize weak links in current systems.
• Improve overall architecture quality and service performance.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Effective communication

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Job description

About the team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users. Due to the big system scale and large engineering community that covers multiple Recommendation products, we invest heavily in the developer infra area, from developer environments and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) to frameworks, libraries, and various productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-performance, highly available, and flexible 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, with 3+ years of experience building scalable systems;
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive;
• Preferred Qualifications: 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.