Backend Engineer, Payment Compliance Platform

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Holidays and time off

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and scale core payments compliance platforms, including KYC/AML and sanction screening, in a globally distributed team.

You will collaborate with product, compliance, algorithms, and engineering teams to deliver reliable platform solutions and advance AI-assisted review capabilities for automated decisioning and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; proficient in at least one mainstream programming language such as Go, Java, Python, or C++; strong coding, debugging, system design, and problem-solving skills.
• Backend engineering experience; familiar with distributed systems, microservices, databases, caches, and message queues.
• Able to independently design, develop, and deliver modules in complex business scenarios; strong engineering quality mindset.
• Strong ownership, self-motivation, and learning ability; able to proactively identify and drive solutions in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with product, operations, compliance, algorithm, and engineering teams.
• Comfortable working in a global, multicultural, and cross-region collaboration environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize core systems of the Payment compliance platform, including KYC, AML, sanction screening, case management, review workflows, review tools, configuration platforms, QC systems, and operational efficiency products.
• Build highly available, scalable, and maintainable backend services to support KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and other payments risk/compliance scenarios.
• Contribute to the architecture and capability development of intelligent compliance review systems, exploring AI/LLM, AI agents, RAG, knowledge bases, workflow orchestration, and related technologies.
• Build AI-assisted and automated review capabilities to improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and end-to-end automation.
• Collaborate with PMs, compliance policy, operations teams, algorithm teams, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable compliance platform solutions.
• Continuously improve system stability, performance, observability, and engineering quality, including architecture optimization, monitoring and alerting, automated testing, incident remediation, and process improvements.
• Deeply understand complex compliance workflows and abstract business rules, SOPs, and operational experience into reusable, configurable, and extensible platform capabilities.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C++

System design

Debugging

Problem-solving

Back-end

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and scale core payments compliance platforms, including KYC/AML and sanction screening, in a globally distributed team.

You will collaborate with product, compliance, algorithms, and engineering teams to deliver reliable platform solutions and advance AI-assisted review capabilities for automated decisioning and operations.