Backend Software Engineer - User Growth

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.

Job highlights

Career growth opportunity, Meals provided

Responsibilities

The TikTok User Growth team is central to the strategic acquisition, engagement, and expansion of TikTok's global user base, numbering in the billions. Our mandate encompasses driving significant user inflow through both paid and organic channels worldwide, meticulously optimizing new user conversion pathways to maximize retention, streamlining user outreach mechanisms to foster greater activity, and strategically utilizing independent platforms (e.g., TikTok Lite, TikTok Pro, Web) to capture distinct user segments. These comprehensive approaches are designed to achieve accelerated growth in TikTok's overall DAU. Typical Growth projects including AI-Generated Content (AIGC).creative generating, Search Engine Optimizing of Organic acquisition, Intelligent Ads delivery,etc.

Responsibilities

- Design and develop high-performant, high-reliable and high-resuable distributed and parallel systems that power growth features for various ByteDance's products.

- Integrate with multiple internal and external services to deliver growth features end-to-end.

- Manage individual project and tasks priorities and deadlines with high-quality and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable universities.

- Familiar with backend technologies, including Database, concurrency, multithreading, synchronization, loading balancing, etc.

- Good understanding of multi-tier application architecture and protocols, familiarity with product and software development lifecycle processes.

Preferred Qualification:

- Working proficiency in writing and speaking English.