Responsibilities
TikTok Shop 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. TikTok Shop business team hopes to provide users with more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive 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.

As the core engine of TikTok Shop's ecosystem, our team shoulders the mission of designing the transaction system architecture and tackling technical challenges for TikTok Shop, focusing on providing global users with a highly reliable, low-latency, and ultimate transaction experience. The team is currently in a stage of rapid development. Facing numerous challenges, such as hundreds of millions of users and global multi-business forms, we urgently need architects and engineers with rich e-commerce background experience to join us and jointly build a world-class e-commerce transaction platform.

Responsibilities:
- Responsible for core system development in the TikTok Shop trading domain, deeply involved in building multiple core systems, handling system design, development, maintenance, and continuous optimisation.
- Benchmark against the industry to continuously plan and enhance the foundational capabilities of the trading center system, optimising openness and scalability.
- Participate in improving the system's international architecture and build stability and high availability for the system.
- Explore new business models in TikTok Shop.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & System Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related discipline.
- Experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Java/Golang; familiar with Linux, MySQL, Redis, RocketMQ, and configuration centers.
- Capable of performance optimisation, system stress testing, rate limiting and degradation, database sharding in high-traffic scenarios.
- Strong learning ability, good problem analysis and solving skills, awareness of new technologies and willing to engage in new technology research.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in e-commerce system development.
- Strong communication skills and good team spirit.

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.

Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Shop (Trading)

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