Senior Frontend Software Engineer, TikTok Effect Platform

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.

An "Effect" is an innovative camera feature that seamlessly integrates cutting-edge AR technology, enabling users to create captivating videos. Central to the TikTok user experience, effects ignite joy, foster creativity, and spur new trends among our billion+ global community.

The Effect Platform team, instrumental in stimulating digital creativity, fosters a vibrant ecosystem for global effect designers. Based in the US, our focus is to enhance the designer community's experience through:
- Comprehensive onboarding of new designers with robust educational resources and guidance.
- Development and maintenance of an effect management portal.
- Provision of a data analytics dashboard for insightful feedback.
- Implementation of monetary and non-monetary incentive schemes.

To deliver top-tier products, our team harnesses various software stacks and consists of both Frontend and Backend engineers. Particularly for Frontend engineers:
- We utilize hybrid WebView solutions for feature delivery within the TikTok app.
- We build the effecthouse.tiktok.com site using acclaimed web frameworks such as React/Redux.
- We leverage TikTok's infrastructure to build multi-region, multi-language systems.

Responsibilities
- Work closely with cross functional teams like product managers, designers, etc. to deliver state of the art user experience in the above products mentioned
- Build world-class frontends, which combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability
- Adopt automated and manual test strategies to ensure product quality
- Learn and understand how TikTok products work and help build end-to-end solutions
- Learn and grow from working with great colleagues and taking on challenges
- Help our team grow from your expertiseMinimum Qualifications:
- Understanding of component-based development ideas, familiarity with React, Angular 2.0+, Vue.js, or any other equivalent library / framework
- Experience in solving CSS/JS multi-browser compatibility problems and front-end performance optimization
- Understanding of construction and continuous integration, familiarity with at least one construction tool, such as webpack, or esbuild

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 3 years of practical experience in relevant domains
- Understanding of back-end technologies and databases, or experience on RemixJS or Docusaurus framework is a plus

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