Senior Software Architect - Global E-commerce Open Platform - Seattle

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 UsCreation 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. 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. Responsibilities : We're looking for experienced architects to join our Open Ecosystem team and help our global merchants and partners to grow their business.

You will lead the effort of building an influential platform from scratch and you will solve the end to end OpenAPI-driven ecommerce domains, like order and fulfillment, merchandise, promotion, live and affiliate, IM and CRM, etc.

You will be challenged by complex sets of business and technical challenges as you leverage a broad range of technical disciplines and cross-team collaboration to ensure success for our clients and to unlock the potential provided by our e-commerce platform capabilities.

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will : - Be the principal owner for the development and delivery of end to end OpenAPI-based integrated solutions, like order and fulfillment, merchandise, promotion, live and affiliate, IM and CRM, etc.

• Provide architectural design, Roadmap planning for Open ecosystem platforms, such as integration with top global e-commerce sites like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Channel Advisor, Shopify, etc- Provide architectural design, Roadmap planning and execution for scalability, availability, capital loss prevention of the platform.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and key account merchants to support the business.- Be the single point of contact for the owned domain.

Minimum Qualifications : - 5+ years experience of production coding experience, or xx+ years of technical solutions architecture experience - Familiar with one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to : Python, Go, Java, C / C++.

• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.- Ability to collaborate across different functional teams or stakeholder groups internally and externally.
• Demonstrated knowledge of open platform APIs and backend systems design. Preferred Qualifications : - Experienced backend architect with 5+ years of experience in e-commerce or related areas.
• Possess rich e-commerce industry experience, or able to quickly develop a solid understanding of the e-commerce business.
• Highly self-driven with strong people skills, and able to collaborate with a wide range of clients and internal partners to independently identify and address key issues and optimization opportunities.
• Creative problem solver who can thrive with minimal instruction or supervision.
30+ days ago