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 Mountain View, Seattle Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

TikTok Mobile Architecture & Infrastructure Team is dedicated to productivity and quality of TikTok APP's engineering projects, empowering hundreds of TikTok mobile developers in areas including infrastructure, app architecture, engineering tool chains, and app foundations.

You will join a team consisting of creative, passionate developers who always strive to stay at the forefront of technologies. We constantly push the limits of what our technology is capable of, strive to be leaders in innovation, and deeply value the diversity of team's background. We share our learning through regular weekly meetings, tech talks, and internal tech journals.

If you are interested in joining a world-class team and ready for taking up challenges of huge complexity and scale, we look forward to hearing from you soon!
Responsibilities:
- Build mobile infrastructure and tools to enhance engineering efficiency
- Analyze and optimize UI and infrastructure application code for better performance
- Develop and maintain reusable app components
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver technical solutions and best practices
- Optimize the project structure and workflow to improve engineering productivity, efficiency, and quality
- Drive architecture innovations to support world-class mobile app development

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in iOS application development
- Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of the iOS platform
- Experience in Objective-C and/or Swift, with a solid understanding of application design philosophies (MVC, MVVM, VIPER, etc.) clean API design, etc
- Working knowledge of remote APIs, concurrency, layouts, transitions, animations, client side persistence, and architectural patterns on mobile apps

Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience working in a mobile architecture/infrastructure team with deep understanding of the tech-stack in these projects
- Experience in sub-engineering areas such as performance optimization, tool-chain, automated testing, design pattern, etc.
- Strong communication skills; enjoy working as a team while being comfortable with delivering large business outcomes independently

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 gprd.accommodations@tiktok.com.