Backend Engineer Graduate (TikTok e-Commerce Recommendation Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

About the Team
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-ecommerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.
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.

Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system;
- Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc;
- Build globalized large-scale recommendation system;
- Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
- Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Final year Ph.D or recent Ph.D graduates with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver.
- Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.
- Experience in e-commerce related areas
- Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

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