Trust & Safety Tech Lead — Backend & Fullstack

TikTok

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 207,000 - 368,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.