Senior Backend Software Engineer, Content E-Commerce

Seattle, Washington, US Until 8/21/2026 5+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

Global e-commerce is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive consistent and reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

Content E-commerce is a global team responsible for building up the content ecosystem for E-commerce. We provide more highly qualified E-commerce content to customers to help them find good products at affordable prices. We attract more creators to land on the E-commerce platform, create more E-commerce related content and get benefits from their content. Also, we help merchants to find suitable creators to sell their products. Our mission is to build up an ecosystem which both customers and creators and merchants will benefit from.

Responsibilities:
- Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Shop in the US.
- Integrate TikTok Shop with partner APIs to leverage existing ecosystem and scale up the business to a broader audience, while guaranteeing end-to-end scalability and providing a cohesive experience to customers.
- Design, develop and test the global product for the creator affiliate and agency product.
- In charge of optimizing the experience of influencers and affiliate, you are responsible for the affiliate GMV and activities of influencers.
- Constantly work with Affiliate product team to optimize creator funnel and creator experiences.
- Complete ownership of product feature development, from initial requirement management to post-live analysis, drive the best product efficiency and experience.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 5 or more years experience managing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang/Python/C++.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
- In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.

About this role

Summary

Develop scalable, secure backend services for TikTok Shop's content e-commerce platform.

Job title

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Content E-Commerce

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

e-commerce

Location requirements

Seattle, Washington, United States; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

JavaGolangPythonC++MySQLRedisKafka

Preferred skills

data structurealgorithm designnetworkingdata securitysystem design

Specializations

backendscalabilitye-commerceAPI integration
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

On-site City