Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Governance Platform

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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 stable 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.

E-Commerce's Governance Platform is a global team responsible for ensuring a safe and trustworthy marketplace for not only our buyers, but also our sellers and creators. We constantly work on areas such as risk detection abilities, fairness and sustainability of the E-Commerce ecosystem, content and commodity quality to drive improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Build e-commerce solutions for TikTok Shop for the US market by working closely with design, product, and other cross-functional teams in developing efficient, highly scalable, and secured services using backend service experience.
• Design and develop medium-complexity backend systems, services, and/or new features for information-security, compliance, anti-fraud, business governance, and customer experience.
• Help the leader to come up with the short- and mid-term technical roadmap of responsible services and drive its implementation.
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services. Improve product quality through bug fixes, performance analysis, and tuning.
• Help to grow the team by hiring and mentoring peer Engineers.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Solid problem-solving skills and strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
• Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.
• Ability to provide elegant and efficient design solutions
• In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka/MQ etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $185000 - $280000 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:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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.