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TikTok

Backend Engineer, TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Infrastructure

Jan 6, 2023• Singapore

About us

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

★ 4.5 out of 5 · 6 reviews

  • Size: 10,000+ employees
  • Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet
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Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity

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Responsibilities

About the Team
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-ecommerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system
- Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc
- Build globalized large-scale recommendation system
- Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures
- Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields
- Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualification
- Experience in e-commerce related areas
- Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

About the Team
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-ecommerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system
- Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc
- Build globalized large-scale recommendation system
- Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures
- Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields
- Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualification
- Experience in e-commerce related areas
- Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

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Additional Information

  • Posted: Jan 6, 2023
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