Software Engineer Graduate (TikTok Global E-Commerce Recommendation & Search Architecture, Singapore) - 2027 Start

BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Yoga and fitness

Stock options

Flexible hours

Paid leave

Competitive compensation

Job summary

ByteDance Singapore invites talented engineers to join the Search & Recommendation Infra team for TikTok Shop. You will design and build high-performance services and data pipelines, applying ML and NLP techniques to improve search quality and recommendations.

Work with global teams, tackle distributed systems challenges, and contribute to scalable storage and processing platforms. The role offers growth opportunities within a fast-growing tech company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in AI, software development, CS, or related field.
• Proficient in at least one programming language from C, C++, Java, or Golang.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and machine learning workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance online services and data pipelines for TikTok Shop recommendation and search.
• Design and develop scalable infrastructure for recommendation and search systems.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and global teams to drive innovation and performance.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Communication

Ownership

Big data frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in AI/CS or related

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Flink

Spark

Kafka

HBase

Redis

RocksDB

Elasticsearch

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

• Yoga and fitness
• Stock options
• Positive team atmosphere
• Career growth opportunity
• Paid leave
• Flat organization
• 100+ mil users
• Industry experts
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible hours

Responsibilities

Team Introduction：E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-commerce Recommendation and Search Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation and search systems, so as to provide the best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

The Search team is mainly responsible for the search algorithm innovation and architecture research and development of TikTok Shop. We use cutting-edge machine learning technology for end-to-end modeling and continuous innovation and breakthroughs, while focusing on the construction and performance optimization of distributed systems and machine learning systems.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

• Build and maintain high-performance online services and data pipelines for TikTok Shop recommendation and search systems.
• Design and develop high-performance computing frameworks and storage systems for e-commerce scenarios.
• Develop and optimize search engine architecture for TikTok Shop, including retrieval systems and data processing platforms.
• Ensure production system stability and build industry-leading distributed systems for massive data and business scale.
• Apply data mining, machine learning, and NLP techniques to extract insights from large-scale e-commerce datasets.
• Collaborate with global teams to drive search and recommendation innovation for TikTok Shop users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree or above in Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline. Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
• 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.
• Familiar with many open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc. for big data roles.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & da