Android Software Engineer Intern (Global LIVE Platform) - 2025 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

With the enormous growth of live streaming in recent years, our mission is to inspire real-time interactions and help live streamers connect to people from all corners of the globe.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build and optimize a real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming in TikTok. You will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for all live streamers and audience alike.

TikTok Live Platform Mobile team focuses on mobile-end development for the payment related feature direction dedicated to building secure, stable, and seamless payment products. Our goal is to enhance the payment experience for users, ensuring smooth transactions within the TikTok ecosystem. Beyond development, we strive to deeply understand our users, identify key opportunities, and prioritize challenges to create innovative user experience solutions. We are looking for experienced iOS engineers to join our team and contribute to the development of iOS native and cross-platform applications that power our payment products.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok

Responsibilities:
1. Design, implement the new-user features of our mobile application.
2. Collaborate with the design and product teams to create a world-class mobile experience.
3. Optimize mobile applications and user experience on the iOS platforms.
4. Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high quality work on a tight schedule.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to either of the following Internships
- From January to June
- From May to August (Summer)

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Undergraduate or Postgraduate currently pursuing a Degree/Master in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Proficiency in Java or Kotlin.
- Ability to understand and debug large and complex codebases.
- Good team communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in native Android development
- Large scale client-facing industry project development experience.

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com.