Backend Engineer Graduate (TikTok Shop - Europe) - 2027 Start

Responsibilities

About the team
TikTok Shop is a content e-Commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. TikTok Shop hopes to provide users with more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Candidates who pass resume screening will be invited to participate in Our Company's technical online assessment.

Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services;
- Optimise backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability;
- Analyse business and technical requirements carefully to solve challenging problems;
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews;
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers, and business owners in the team to ensure timely delivery of business requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline;
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style;
- Familiarity with at least one of the programming languages: Go, Python, Java or C++;
- Pragmatic understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security, distributed system, and highly scalable systems design.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver;
- Deeply passionate about software coding/development and building great mobile/web applications;
- Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment;
- Experienced in data engineering and familiar with online / offline data processing pipeline development.