Backend Software Engineer - TikTok Search

Backend Software Engineer - TikTok Search at TikTok in Singapore.

Responsibilities

Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time. We encourage a culture of self-driven, intellectual curiosity, openness and problem-solving.

Detailed responsibilities include but not limited to

• Product Development: Support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and further enable the product growth.
• Performance & Stability: Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
• Search Engineering Infrastructure: Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
• Search offline processing: Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine.
• Backend engineering team building, management and development.

Requirements

Minimum Qualification(s)

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors with 3+ years of experience
• Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, and industry experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Good at coding, data structures and basic algorithms
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualification(s)

• Good understanding of how modern search system is built or how modern search product should be evolved.
• Industry experience in building a consumer-facing search product.
• Experience in building a medium-size backend technical team from scratch.

About the Company

The Global Business Solutions (GBS) team is responsible for the revenue growth of the TikTok business, and our teams include Sales, Marketing, Ops, Account Managers, Agency and partnerships, as well as Marketing Science.

At TikTok, our Global Business Solutions (GBS) team plays a key role in generating revenue by promoting our advertising solutions, onboarding new clients, driving ad campaigns, and more. As the TikTok community grows at an unprecedented speed around the world, our GBS team leads groundbreaking projects that are changing the landscape of the advertising industry in real time.

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