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Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Open Platform - San Jose

TikTok
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/26/2025
Responsibilities

The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates.With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands.

About The Team

The Open Platform serves as a connector linking e-commerce businesses with external ecological partners. It bridges e-commerce and the external ecosystem, giving full play to the service capabilities and creativity of the ecosystem, thereby bringing business increments and improving operational efficiency for merchants. We provide merchants with a rich variety of high-quality third-party tools and services, facilitating the matchmaking of transactions between merchants and services as well as the fulfillment of services, thus helping merchants enhance their business operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Shop in the US
  • Develop and Optimize backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability.
  • Develop best-in-class real-time computing, high concurrency and high scalability engineering practices across all product engineering disciplines.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
  • 2 to 5 years of experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python.
  • Solid problem-solving skills and strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security, and highly scalable systems design.
  • Ability to provide elegant and efficient design solutions
  • In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka/MQ etc.
  • Possessing good communication, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills, able to communicate and collaborate across multiple departments and teams to solve complex problems.
  • Sensitive to data, possess good logical thinking and data analysis skills, and be good at using data analysis to improve business.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  • Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
  • Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
  • Exercising sound judgment.

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Accommodation

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://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Salary : $145,000 - $250,000

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