Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
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Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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TikTok for Business (TT4B) recommendation engineering team is responsible for building the next-generation TT4B recommendation system to provide any individual advertiser fully customized recommendations around all operationalable ads management with quantitative adoption estimate and self-serviceable or automated actions to adopt them. These recommendations will be highly visible to advertisers everywhere on suites of TT4B products such as Ads Manager, Business Suite, Business Account, TT4B Marketing Website. The team owns every component E2E across recommendation population and expansion, recommendation vending, recommendation performance and rendering. TT4B recommendation engineering team innovate through the latest AI technology, highly distributed systems and industrial leading frontend technologies.
We are looking for engineers who will work with us to create the history of the most powerful and highly-impactful TT4B recommendation systems. You will have the opportunity to learn TT4B core ads infra and various ads domain knowledge such as creatives, measurement, budget management, campaign creation flow and so on. You will directly work with great business partners like you to influence product roadmap and customer satisfaction as well as our revenue growth. You will work with a super strong technical community including various domain gurus and experts to drive architectural and product excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement TT4B recommendation new features.
- Develop, deploy, optimize, troubleshoot and operate TT4B E2E systems.
- Work with attribution and data engineering teams to monitor and improve our TT4B recommendation performance.
- Work with leaders/leadership and TT4B sister teams to evangelize TT4B recommendations framework and synergize recommendation system and TT4B E2E ads solution.
- Partner with dedicated PMs to refine, review and drive TT4B recommendations' requirement iterations.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- Hands-on full stack (backend and frontend) coding experience.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering. Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design) and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency and experience with designing, implementing and operating large scale distributed systems
- Very strong teamwork skills (e.g. communication, ownership, empathy, honesty).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have relevant experience in advertising industry.
- Have experience in recommendation engines, machine learning, data analysis, domain-driven design and complex infrastructure.
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at tt.accommodations@tiktok.com
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[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $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.
Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:
We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.