Senior Backend Software Engineer, Content E-commerce

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to develop scalable services for TikTok Shop in the US. You will integrate with partner APIs and design the global product for creator affiliate programs, owning features from initial requirements through post-live analysis.

You will optimize influencer affiliate experiences and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable platform performance for e-commerce content and creators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable backend services.
• Strong software programming and coding style.
• Knowledge of MySQL, Redis, Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable backend services for TikTok Shop US.
• Integrate TikTok Shop with partner APIs.
• Design and test the global product for creator affiliate.
• Own feature development from requirements to post-live analysis.
• Improve influencer affiliate experiences.

Skills

Backend systems

Java/Golang/Python/C++

Distributed databases

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team: Global e-commerce is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive consistent and reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high‑quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

Content E-commerce is a global team responsible for building up the content ecosystem for E-commerce. We provide more highly qualified E-commerce content to customers to help them find good products at affordable prices. We attract more creators to land on the E-commerce platform, create more E-commerce related content and get benefits from their content. Also, we help merchants to find suitable creators to sell their products. Our mission is to build up an ecosystem which both customers and creators and merchants will benefit from.

• Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Shop in the US.
• Integrate TikTok Shop with partner APIs to leverage existing ecosystem and scale up the business to a broader audience, while guaranteeing end‑to‑end scalability and providing a cohesive experience to customers.
• Design, develop and test the global product for the creator affiliate and agency product.
• In charge of optimizing the experience of influencers and affiliate, you are responsible for the affiliate GMV and activities of influencers.
• Constantly work with Affiliate product team to optimize creator funnel and creator experiences.
• Complete ownership of product feature development, from initial requirement management to post‑live analysis, drive the best product efficiency and experience.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 5 or more years experience managing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python/C++.
• Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
• In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.

Job Information

Compensation Description (annually):

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 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

• 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; and
• 3. Exercising sound judgment.