Payments Compliance Backend Engineer (AI/LLM)

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and scale payment compliance platform systems (KYC, AML, sanctions) in San Jose, CA. You will contribute to reliable services across distributed systems and help shape AI-assisted review capabilities.

Join a cross-functional team working with PMs, policy, operations, and engineering to deliver high-quality compliance solutions in a fast-paced, global environment.

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.
• Ability 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 LLMs, 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 closely 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++

Backend engineering

System design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and scale payment compliance platform systems (KYC, AML, sanctions) in San Jose, CA. You will contribute to reliable services across distributed systems and help shape AI-assisted review capabilities.

Join a cross-functional team working with PMs, policy, operations, and engineering to deliver high-quality compliance solutions in a fast-paced, global environment.