Senior AI Backend Engineer — Scalable Asset Platform

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant/onsite amenities

Job summary

TikTok’s Creation team is an international R&D group building creative capabilities and productizing AI and multimedia technologies to power world-class creation experiences for TikTok users. Our stack spans front-end, back-end, mobile and desktop, with multimedia processing and AR, across major cities worldwide including the US (San Jose) and China.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end products with performance and

Qualifications

• Backend experience with large-scale consumer apps.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of modern distributed systems.
• Experience with AI applications and coding paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design and frontend teams to deliver state-of-the-art UX.
• Develop end-to-end, scalable backend products with performance and maintainability.
• Support 100M+ UGC users and 10M+ designers in the creation flow.
• Build AI-native service ecosystems and development workflows.
• Create an Agent system for intelligent creation.

Skills

Backend services

Data structures

Algorithms

Team collaboration

Distributed systems

AI experience

Education

BS in Computer Science or related

Job description

TikTok’s Creation team is an international R&D group building creative capabilities and productizing AI and multimedia technologies to power world-class creation experiences for TikTok users. Our stack spans front-end, back-end, mobile and desktop, with multimedia processing and AR, across major cities worldwide including the US (San Jose) and China.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end products with performance and