Frontend Software Engineer, TikTok Effect Platform

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.



Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.



An "Effect" is an innovative camera feature that seamlessly integrates cutting-edge AR technology, enabling users to create captivating videos. Central to the TikTok user experience, effects ignite joy, foster creativity, and spur new trends among our billion+ global community.



The Effect Platform team, instrumental in stimulating digital creativity, fosters a vibrant ecosystem for global effect designers. Based in the US, our focus is to enhance the designer community's experience through:

- Comprehensive onboarding of new designers with robust educational resources and guidance.

- Development and maintenance of an effect management portal.

- Provision of a data analytics dashboard for insightful feedback.

- Implementation of monetary and non-monetary incentive schemes.



To deliver top-tier products, our team harnesses various software stacks and consists of both Frontend and Backend engineers. Particularly for Frontend engineers:

- We utilize hybrid WebView solutions for feature delivery within the TikTok app.

- We build the effecthouse.tiktok.com site using acclaimed web frameworks such as React/Redux.

- We leverage TikTok's infrastructure to build multi-region, multi-language systems.



Responsibilities

- Work closely with cross functional teams like product managers, designers, etc. to deliver state of the art user experience in the above products mentioned

- Build world-class frontends, which combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability

- Adopt automated and manual test strategies to ensure product quality

- Learn and understand how TikTok products work and help build end-to-end solutions

- Learn and grow from working with great colleagues and taking on challenges

- Help our team grow from your expertise