Software Architect (Multiple Positions)

Responsibilities

About ByteDance
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.


Why Join Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!

Qualifications

Responsibilities
- Design and implement software architecture and frameworks for camera and effects pipelines and work on the latest iOS technologies and architectural patterns to develop world-class mobile applications.
- Scale design ideas to support millions of users, and maintain consistency in overall architecture while delivering customer solutions for iOS users.
- Improve the mobile codebase by working on foundational issues and helping to rearchitect, as necessary.
- Participate in quality evaluations for new camera features and algorithms through experimental studies, and provide direct feedback to the engineering teams.
- Automate and improve the infrastructure and workflows in close collaboration with software developers, testers, system operators, and other stakeholders through the selection, orchestration, configuration, and scripting of various Augmented Reality (AR) effects-supporting tools.
- Contribute innovative ideas towards all aspects of AR effects and video editing.
- Track online and offline fault, and draw improvement measures such as monitoring optimization, test plan improvement, and defect tracking.
- Perform technical, operational, and risk analysis for new changes and technologies and articulate risks in a succinct manner.
- Validate changes implemented with industry team and client service before deploying the new features on the app.
- Develop highly innovative, consumer-facing iOS apps by writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code reviews.
- Build intuitive features to improve the experience for mobile app users.

Qualifications
Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related field, and 7 years of related work experience, out of which 5 years must be post-bachelor’s, progressive related work experience.

Of the required experience, must have 5 years of experience in each of the following:

- Designing mobile application architectures, including creating the architecture, selecting technologies, defining coding standards, ensuring scalability, and collaborating with development teams;
- Integrating test automation frameworks with Jenkins or Bamboo for CI/CD, and upgrading automation frameworks for greater stability;
- Working with interface definition languages and building script-based tools to automatically generate application programming interfaces for typed languages;
- Building and deploying applications to Docker container;
- Designing and developing test strategy, performing test planning, designing and executing end-to-end use cases, managing defects, and providing Quality Assurance status reports; and
- Developing and maintaining debug and automation tools and test suites for feature and quality validation.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT: Domestic and/or international travel up to 5% required.

Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: San Jose, CA
Salary Range: $224000 - $410000 per year

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ByteDance Inc. 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 Bytedance, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achie