Senior Backend Software Engineer - Traffic Matrix, TikTok User Growth

Responsibilities

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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. 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.

TikTok's User Growth team leads growth initiatives for TikTok and all its platforms (e.g. TV, Lite, Web, etc.) with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset.

We are seeking talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering to help us reach the next milestone of billions of users.

In the Traffic Matrix, User Growth team, you'll have the opportunity to build TikTok applications on different platforms (e.

g. TV, Pad, Web, Embedded Widgets) to bring joys to our users in all scenes. You'll define A / B testing frameworks to measure and improve user retention and engagement.

We encounter a diversity of technical challenges, allowing you to get a firsthand look at what technologies the most innovative organizations are using and be able to build up a bottom-up growth strategy from scratch.

You'll be joining a full-stack team that can leverage all of TikTok's existing frameworks and be a part of designing and implementing new techniques and foundation work that can further improve user experience and showcase TikTok's value proposition.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will :

• Leverage data to understand our users and our product in-depth, identify areas of opportunity and execute projects to drive user growth, retention, and / or engagement.
• Develop large-scale software systems that powers TikTok app family (e.g. Native, TV, Pad, Web, Embedded Widget).
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance, and reliability of the product.
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.

Qualifications

• BS / MS Degree in Computer Science or related majors with at least 5 years of working experience;
• Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications;
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages : Go, Python, Java, C++;
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms;
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.

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 $194000 - $355000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match.

As well as Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are : 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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