Senior Backend Software Engineer, Content E-commerce

About TikTok:
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 products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, 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 users we serve. Join us.

About the team: 
Global e-commerce is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive consistent and reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

Content E-commerce is a global team responsible for building up the content ecosystem for E-commerce. We provide more highly qualified E-commerce content to customers to help them find good products at affordable prices.  We attract more creators to land on the E-commerce platform, create more E-commerce related content and get benefits from their content. Also, we help merchants to find suitable creators to sell their products. Our mission is to build up an ecosystem which both customers and creators and merchants will benefit from.

Responsibilities:
- Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for Tiktok Shop in the US
- Integrate TikTok Shop with partner APIs to leverage existing ecosystem and scale up the business to a broader audience, while guaranteeing end-to-end scalability and providing a cohesive experience to customers.
- Design, develop and test the global product for the creator affiliate and agency product
- In charge of optimizing the experience of influencers and affiliate, you are responsible for the affiliate GMV and activities of influencers 
- Constantly work with Affiliate product team to optimize creator funnel and creator experiences
- Complete ownership of product feature development, from initial requirement management to post-live analysis, drive the best product efficiency and experience.Minimum Qualification:
- Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- 5 or more years experience managing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python/C++.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
- In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.
Preferred Qualification:
- Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.

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