Frontend Tech Lead Manager, Flow, Singapore

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 the team
The Flow Product Research & Development team focuses on researching the implementation of artificial intelligence-related businesses. Currently, we have implemented Artificial intelligence-related innovative products and corresponding bot development platforms. Our business and team are rapidly growing.
We are looking for an exceptional R&D leader / engineer who possesses a deep understanding of programming language semantics. You will be driving cutting-edge research and pushing the boundaries of machine learning. The challenges we tackle are far from the typical technical issues you encounter every day. Instead, you will be part of a team that pioneers solutions for entirely new and unprecedented challenges that haven't been addressed by major tech companies. We operate on an unprecedented scale and speed, making a global impact, and you will be instrumental in this endeavour.

Responsibilities:
1. Lead the team to be responsible for the front-end development work of compliance, online operation and maintenance, and end experience related to bot platform businesses.
2. Architect and develop efficient, highly reusable front-end systems for complex web applications.
3. Create modular and reusable components and features.
4. Prioritize rendering performance to ensure a superior user experience on a highly interactive platform.
5. Continuously improve front-end design and implementation processes to enhance quality and efficiency.
6. Optimize code to boost scalability, reliability, security, and performance of web applications.
7. Collaborate with product design, product management, and software engineering teams to deliver top-notch user experiences.
8. Be responsible for the recruitment and management of the Singapore frontend development team.Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other STEM disciplines.
2. At least 3 years of leadership experience in managing a team and getting excellent results, with the ability to discover and solve various problems faced by the development of the team in a timely manner.
3. Proficient in front-end engineering with proven experience in JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, React, and packaging frameworks such as Webpack, Rollup, Babel, AST, Gulp.
4. Familiar with essential concepts like functional and asynchronous programming, closures, types, layouts, specificity, animation, cross-browser compatibility, data security, and accessibility.

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Strong understanding of multi-tier application architecture and protocols, with a good grasp of product and software development lifecycle processes.
2. Agile and quick to learn, highly self-motivated with a strong sense of product ownership and a creative problem-solving ability.
3. Deep passion for software coding/development and building outstanding mobile/web applications.
4. Effective collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast-paced, culturally diverse, and globally distributed team environment.
5. Contributions to open-source projects.

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.