Tech lead - TikTok Search

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a backend-focused engineer to accelerate TikTok Search development in a scalable, high-performance environment. You will contribute to fast iterations, robust infrastructure, and offline data support, collaborating with a cross-functional team across product and engineering.

The role emphasizes building a consumer-facing search product, scaling backend services, and leading or contributing to a medium-sized backend team, with opportunities to shape platform evolution and

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors.
• Excellent problem-analysis and -solving skills, have industry experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Good at coding, data structure and basic algorithm
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Product Development: Support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and further enable the product growth.
• Performance & Stability: Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
• Search Engineering Infrastructure: Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
• Search offline processing: Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine.
• Backend engineering team building, management and development.

Skills

Backend development

Large-scale systems

Problem solving

Team communication

Education

BS in CS/CE

Job description

Responsibilities

Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time. We encourage a culture of self-driven, intellectual curiosity, openness and problem-solving.

Detailed responsibilities include but not limited to:

1. Product Development: Support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and further enable the product growth.
2. Performance & Stability: Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
3. Search Engineering Infrastructure: Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
4. Search offline processing: Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine.
5. Backend engineering team building, management and development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors
• Excellent problem-analysis and -solving skills, have industry experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Good at coding, data structure and basic algorithm
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding on how modern Search system is built or/and how modern Search product should be evolved.
• Industry experience in building a consumer-facing Search product.
• Experience in building a medium-size backend technical team from scratch.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is 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 bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

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. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. 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

TikTok 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 TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. 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.