Backend Engineer Project Intern (TikTok Shop by Tokopedia) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

About the team
Tokopedia is an e-commerce platform that connects sellers and buyers across Indonesia. Our aim is to empower sellers to grow their businesses and enable buyers to easily discover and purchase affordable, high-quality products - improving the quality of life for everyone.
We're looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our Technology team, where we're building an innovative, secure, and intuitive e-commerce ecosystem that serves millions of users and brands nationwide.

As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests.

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.

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

Responsibilities:
- Engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Deploy code daily and use data to drive our decisions, while delivering software and analytics to consumers and dealers.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to solve problems.
- Write well formatted modular code.
- Compile and integrate changes with the project.
- Implement unit tests and functional tests for their tasks.
- Convert given high level software design to low level software design.
- Use suitable data structures.
- Perform, debug and fix bugs, competency in 1 programming language.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Majoring in Computer Science or related field.
- Expertise with Golang or similar object-oriented languages.
- Strong understanding of SQL or similar relational databases.
- Understanding of how to build high volume, distributed back-end services with latest technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experienced with a modern Javascript framework like React.js is a plus.
- Experienced with building scalable websites (e-commerce) or large-scale applications.
- Possess strong debugging skills.