Responsibilities
About the Music Team:
Our team's mission is to build resonance and inspire expression through music, which includes Music Discovery, Promotion and SoundOn. The team's mission is to inspire music production by servicing creators along the lifecycle of creation, promotion and engagement and to encourage music discovery for consumers.
As a Software Engineer on our Backend team, you will:
- Develop software systems to support TikTok's internal music scene, mainly for music promotion.
- Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services.
- Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
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Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, deploy and evolve highly scalable distributed services.
- Partner with Product Managers and work with multiple business partners to develop solutions.
- Collaborate with global XFN teams to support new product innovations and business proposals, and continuously explore new initiatives from the engineering perspective.
- Participate in the polishing of business capabilities, optimize technical bottlenecks, promote business process optimization, help businesses land better and iterate efficiently.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related areas.
- 1-3 years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python etc.
- Experience or passion for designing, evaluating, and improving the efficiency, scalability, and stability of distributed systems.
-Having good business communication and collaboration skills, being able to maintain good communication and collaboration with the business
Preferred qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects.
- Having experience in building marketing matchmaking, promoting influencers, optimizing traffic heating strategies, or music products is an additional bonus.
-Good initiative, strong sense of ownership, self-driven and product-oriented, with awareness of business indicators.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $250000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.