Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer Tech Lead - Trust and Safety (Seattle)

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in Seattle is seeking a Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer Tech Lead for Trust and Safety to guide a cross-functional team delivering scalable risk and response solutions. You will shape roadmap, mentor engineers, and ensure quality, security, and reliability at massive scale.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and QA to translate requirements into robust software and to steer projects from design through deployment across front-end, back-end, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher in computer science with at least 5+ years of experience.
• 2+ years leading or managing a software engineering team.
• Experience architecting large-scale consumer web and backend systems.
• Experience delivering user-facing products and scalable architectures.
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across full-stack, front-end and back-end workstreams.
• Shape the roadmap for Trust and Safety risk and response domain.
• Define technical vision, strategy, and project execution plans.
• Improve quality, efficiency, and security of systems at scale.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists and infra teams to deliver solutions.
• Translate requirements into robust software and drive delivery from design to deployment.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Web application architecture

Proactive problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer Tech Lead - Trust and Safety (Seattle)

Location: Seattle

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A249216A

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Responsibilities

The Trust and Safety(TnS) engineering team is responsible for protecting our users from harmful content and abusive behaviors. With the continuous efforts of our trust and safety engineering team, TikTok can provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.We are in search of a seasoned Technical Lead to spearhead our engineering team dedicated to Trust and Safety's Risk and Response business. In this role, you will oversee a group of skilled engineers specializing in full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your primary responsibility will involve fostering seamless teamwork within the group and across cross-functional teams (XFN) that include Product Managers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and QAs. Your leadership will be instrumental in establishing public trust through providing solutions to support risk and response business, especially escalation handling.

• Lead a team of engineers and collaborate with TnS experts, machine learning engineers, and other cross-functional teams on delivering key results
• Work with PM and other partner teams to shape the roadmap of TnS risk and response domain.
• Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Continuously improve the quality, efficiency, and security of the system
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
• Help TikTok's product teams design safety and abuse resistance into new products from the beginning
• Manage resources and budgets to optimize team performance and achieve business objectives.
• To design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications, systems, or services that power products used by over a billion people worldwide. You will translate product and technical requirements into software solutions using sound engineering principles and best practices. You will also get to write, review, debug, and improve code to raise the bar on quality, performance, and reliability at massive scale. As an engineer here, you will partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver these solutions and continuously improve them based on real-world usage and feedback.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science with at least 5 YOE
• 2+ years of experience in managing or technically leading a software engineering team.
• Strong experience in architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications and backend systems.
• Had solid user-facing product experience in building, designing, and scaling software architecture
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
• Experience of driving collaboration across cross functional teams on delivering shared goals.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in trust and safety or risk control system design and implementation is preferred.
• Full-stack development background
• Strong product sense, with experience driving user-facing products/features from 0 to 1.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $207480 - $368220 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

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