Senior Backend Software Engineer, TikTok for Business Recommendation

ion engineering team is responsible for building the next-generation TT4B recommendation system to provide any individual advertiser fully customized recommendations around all operationalable ads management with quantitative adoption estimate and self-serviceable or automated actions to adopt them. These recommendations will be highly visible to advertisers everywhere on suites of TT4B products such as Ads Manager, Business Suite, Business Account, TT4B Marketing Website. The team owns every component E2E across recommendation population and expansion, recommendation vending, recommendation performance and rendering. TT4B recommendation engineering team innovate through the latest AI technology, highly distributed systems and industrial leading frontend technologies.

We are looking for engineers and tech leads who will work with us to create the history of the most powerful and highly-impactful TT4B recommendation systems. You will have the opportunity to learn TT4B core ads infra and various ads domain knowledge such as creatives, measurement, budget management, campaign creation flow and so on. You will directly work with great business partners like you to influence product roadmap and customer satisfaction as well as our revenue growth. You will work with a super strong technical community including various domain gurus and experts to drive architectural and product excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead a focused engineering team to design and implement TT4B recommendation new features.
• Propose and drive the overall TT4B recommendation roadmap and product excellence.
• Develop, deploy, optimize, troubleshoot and operate TT4B E2E systems.
• Work with attribution and data engineering teams to monitor and improve our TT4B recommendation performance.
• Work with leaders/leadership and TT4B sister teams to evangelize TT4B recommendations framework and synergize recommendation system and TT4B E2E ads solution.
• Partner with dedicated PMs to refine, review and drive TT4B recommendations' requirement iterations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
• Hands-on full stack (backend and frontend) coding experience.
• Proven experience of leading team members.
• Proven experience of driving cross-team collaborations at scale.
• Excellent architecture experience of highly-scale and low-latency system design.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering. Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design) and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency and experience with designing, implementing and operating large scale distributed systems
• Very strong teamwork skills (e.g. communication, ownership, empathy, honesty).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have relevant experience in advertising industry.
• Have experience in recommendation engines, machine learning, data analysis, domain-driven design and complex infrastructure.

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 [email protected]

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $184300 - $337250 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.