Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Shop (Customer Business)

Description

About the team
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. 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.

The team is responsible for developing all TikTok Shop Southeast Asia businesses. This scope covers the TikTok Shop (TTS) platform and standalone app in SEA, with a key objective of driving user growth and increasing market share. The work involves exciting projects across user growth initiatives, homepage, and discovery channels. You will be tasked with building the TikTok Shop Platform and collaborating closely with engineers around the globe.

Responsibilities
- Develop efficient, highly scalable, and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Shop.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other disciplines to explore the next generation of shopping experiences on TikTok.
- Be responsible for building an intuitive and reliable shopping experience, including browsing product details, check-out, shopping, return, refund etc.
- Be responsible for TikTok's Shop Tab, building platforms and tools for merchants, clients, and businesses to manage campaigns, deliver the best results, and receive actionable insights.
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & System Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related discipline.
- Experience in developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Golang, or Python.
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, proficient in at least one coding language, including but not limited to Go, Java, C++.

Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience with E-Commerce Products and/or a vertical industry (including Monetization, Retail, Travel, Financial Service, etc).
- Great to have hybrid cross-platform development experience.
- Good understanding of business, technical abstraction and system module design.
- Have large-scale website architecture experience.