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TikTok

Backend Engineer - TikTok Shop (Commercial Platform)

Dec 27, 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
The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

The Commercial Platform team is responsible for development of data analytics & data-empowered platform capabilities across Global E-Commerce. Our mission is to empower our users to leverage and extract actionable insights from data to maximise their potential and efficiency on the global e-commerce platform. In essence, we want to extract facts, attribute causes and predict the future from oceans of data; and our fundamental goals are to reflect business impact, leverage data to support key decisions by lowering decision making complexity and optimising decision making efficacy and efficiency.

Responsibilities
- Undertake the core system research and development work of the global e-commerce operation platform, deeply participate in the construction of multiple core systems, undertake system design, development and maintenance work, and continuously optimize and improve.
- Deeply understand the business, possess good business modeling skills, be able to combine business scenario abstraction, reasonably complete technical selection, and promote implementation.
- Undertake stability construction work, including domestic and foreign multi-data center scheduling, stability governance, loss prevention and control, disaster recovery downgrade, etc.
- Provide professional and technical skills to support the professional growth of individual team members.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & System Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related discipline.
- Candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in constructing distributed backend systems.
- Proficient in software programming with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms; demonstrates excellent code design and coding style.
- Well-understanding with mainstream distributed system platforms and tools: programming languages (Java/Golang/Python/C++), databases and caches (Mysql/PostgreSQL/Redis), message queue platforms (Kafka/RocketMQ) etc.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.

Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with data, with experience in developing e-commerce related business products.
- Familiarity with big data technology stack including Flink, Spark, ClickHouse, Hive.
- Able to quickly understand business background, with excellent technical and business integration ability, good demand abstraction ability and architecture ability.
- Proactive and self-driven, with a deep understanding of business and communication with various roles in the business, able to quickly advance projects and solve problems.
- A great collaborator who thrives in fast-paced, culturally diverse global team environments.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

About the team
The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

The Commercial Platform team is responsible for development of data analytics & data-empowered platform capabilities across Global E-Commerce. Our mission is to empower our users to leverage and extract actionable insights from data to maximise their potential and efficiency on the global e-commerce platform. In essence, we want to extract facts, attribute causes and predict the future from oceans of data; and our fundamental goals are to reflect business impact, leverage data to support key decisions by lowering decision making complexity and optimising decision making efficacy and efficiency.

Responsibilities
- Undertake the core system research and development work of the global e-commerce operation platform, deeply participate in the construction of multiple core systems, undertake system design, development and maintenance work, and continuously optimize and improve.
- Deeply understand the business, possess good business modeling skills, be able to combine business scenario abstraction, reasonably complete technical selection, and promote implementation.
- Undertake stability construction work, including domestic and foreign multi-data center scheduling, stability governance, loss prevention and control, disaster recovery downgrade, etc.
- Provide professional and technical skills to support the professional growth of individual team members.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & System Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related discipline.
- Candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in constructing distributed backend systems.
- Proficient in software programming with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms; demonstrates excellent code design and coding style.
- Well-understanding with mainstream distributed system platforms and tools: programming languages (Java/Golang/Python/C++), databases and caches (Mysql/PostgreSQL/Redis), message queue platforms (Kafka/RocketMQ) etc.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.

Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with data, with experience in developing e-commerce related business products.
- Familiarity with big data technology stack including Flink, Spark, ClickHouse, Hive.
- Able to quickly understand business background, with excellent technical and business integration ability, good demand abstraction ability and architecture ability.
- Proactive and self-driven, with a deep understanding of business and communication with various roles in the business, able to quickly advance projects and solve problems.
- A great collaborator who thrives in fast-paced, culturally diverse global team environments.

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Additional Information

  • Posted: Dec 27, 2023
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