Senior Backend Software Engineer

Description:

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.