Tech Lead Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Seller Business
Responsibilities
The Global E-commerce, Seller Business team plays a critical role in driving the success of our Global E-commerce platform. We are dedicated to building and nurturing a thriving ecosystem of local and abroad sellers who bring diverse products, brands, and innovations to our marketplace on TikTok.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of scalable commerce platform integrations across domains such as product catalog, order management, fulfillment, merchant onboarding, customer service, and partner ecosystem infrastructure.
- Build highly scalable distributed systems supporting cross-platform synchronization for products, orders, fulfillment, reviews, and merchant operations.
- Drive architecture decisions focused on reliability, scalability, API quality, merchant experience, and operational stability across large-scale commerce integrations.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through system design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
- Collaborate closely with globally distributed engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities supporting international commerce expansion initiatives.
- Lead technical problem-solving across complex integration environments involving APIs, distributed systems, third-party platforms, and merchant infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, operations, partner, and engineering teams to improve merchant onboarding, retention, growth, and platform adoption.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of experience building scalable backend or distributed systems for commerce platforms, marketplace infrastructure, payment systems, ERP systems, SaaS integrations, or other complex business platforms.
- 2+ years of experience serving as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead Manager in high-scale engineering organizations, who remain technically hands-on and actively contribute to technical architecture and engineering execution.
- Strong proficiency in backend engineering using Java, Golang, Python, or similar modern programming languages.
- Deep expertise in system design, scalability, reliability engineering, and high-availability distributed systems.
- Comfortable operating in highly collaborative, cross-functional, and globally distributed engineering environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience integrating with major commerce ecosystems such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, WooCommerce, or similar platforms.
- Experience building merchant-facing infrastructure, platform integrations, or partner ecosystem solutions.
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and developer productivity tooling is preferred.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $244800 - $450000 annually.
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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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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