Backend Software Engineer, TikTok - Social Interaction

TikTok Social team drives significant user engagement and retention wins through fun, innovative, and technically sophisticated products and features. We move fast, with precision, and consistently execute with privacy at the forefront.



Social Interaction team is mainly focusing on building a reliable and adaptive platform that enables users to meet and interact with their real-life friends seamlessly on TikTok, and encourage them to share their life moments with each other and stay connected regardless of where they are. Some core features and components we build and maintain include Story, Video Like, Comment, Friends Tab, Inbox Tab, Repost, TikTok Now feature and standalone app, etc. We seek talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering. As a Social team member, you'll help us improve the TikTok social experience and bring joy to hundreds of millions of users, every day.



As a Backend Engineer on the Social Interaction team, you will:

- Develop business critical systems and features that powers TikTok social experiences

- Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services

- Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high quality work in rapid product development

- Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high-quality work on a tight schedule