Tech Lead Manager, Backend - User Growth

San Jose, California


Employer: TikTok
Industry: Backend
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Responsibilities

About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
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.
Join us.

About the Team
TikTok's User Growth team leads growth initiatives for TikTok and all its platforms (e.g. TV, Lite, Web, etc.) with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset. We are seeking talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering to help us reach the next milestone of billions of users.
You'll have the opportunity to build best-in-class onboarding experiences for our users as well as define A/B testing frameworks to measure and improve user retention rates. We encounter a diversity of technical challenges, allowing you to get a firsthand look at what technologies the most innovative organizations are using and be able to build up a bottom-up growth strategy from scratch. You'll be joining a full-stack team that can leverage all of TikTok's existing frameworks and be a part of designing and implementing new techniques and foundation work that can further improve user experience and showcase TikTok's value proposition.

As a Tech Lead Manager, Backend for the User Growth team, you will:
• Lead an engineering direction with a group of top level engineers, to achieve business impact by solving ambiguous product and engineering problems.
• Design and develop high-performance, highly-reliable and reusable distributed and parallel systems that power growth features for various TikTok's products.
• Responsible for technical planning, architecture design, and resolving team technical issues

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related major
• Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications
• 5 years of backend development and people management experience

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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2.

Created: 2024-05-16
Reference: A121730A
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Jose
ZIP: 95118


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