Tech Lead Software Engineer, Innovative Growth

- Strong experience designing and building large-scale backend services or consumer-facing platforms
- Experience working on content, growth, recommendation, experimentation, or search-related systems
- Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++
- Strong system design, architecture, and problem-solving skills
- Experience leading complex cross-functional technical projects from design to production

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience setting technical direction or leading engineering efforts within a team
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering standards
- Experience with AIGC, LLM applications, agent frameworks, AI coding tools, or workflow automation systems
- Interest in search, discovery, and growth ecosystems, including areas such as SEO, GEO, or emerging AI-driven traffic channels
- Experience building data-driven optimization or experimentation platforms
- Experience delivering user-facing products from concept to production in a fast-paced environment

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $244800 - $450000 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.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA

Job ID: TikTok-7629632166617237765

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-04-21T20:46:29