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Tech Lead (Backend/Fullstack) - Trust and Safety (Seattle)

TikTok
Seattle, WA
Full-time

Responsibilities

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

TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.

About Us

The Trust and Safety(TnS) engineering team is responsible for protecting our users from harmful content and abusive behaviors.

With the continuous efforts of our trust and safety engineering team, TikTok can provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.

We are in search of a seasoned Technical Lead Manager to spearhead our engineering team dedicated to Trust and Safety's Risk and Response business.

In this role, you will oversee a group of skilled engineers specializing in full-stack, front-end, and back-end development.

Your primary responsibility will involve fostering seamless teamwork within the group and across cross-functional teams (XFN) that include Product Managers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and QAs.

Your leadership will be instrumental in establishing public trust through providing solutions to support risk and response business, especially escalation handling.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers and collaborate with TnS experts, machine learning engineers, and other cross-functional teams on delivering key results
  • Work with PM and other partner teams to shape the roadmap of TnS risk and response domain.
  • Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • Continuously improve the quality, efficiency, and security of the system
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
  • Help Tiktok's product teams design safety and abuse resistance into new products from the beginning
  • Manage resources and budgets to optimize team performance and achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor or higher degree in computer science with at least 5 YOE
  • 2+ years of experience in managing or technically leading a software engineering team.
  • Strong experience in architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications and backend systems.
  • Had solid user-facing product experience in building, designing, and scaling software architecture
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
  • Experience of driving collaboration across cross functional teams on delivering shared goals.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualification

  • Experience in trust and safety or risk control system design and implementation is preferred.
  • Full-stack development background
  • Strong product sense, with experience driving user-facing products / features from 0 to 1.

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

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