Tech Lead Manager - TikTok OGC

Responsibilities

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.

The mission of TikTok OGC is to inspire diverse entertainment content creation and promote entertainment consumption. We focus on areas such as news, film, sports, gaming and more, aiming to serve copyright holders, entertainment distributors, content creators, TikTok users, and the platform itself. Our goal is to create a win-win environment and foster the flourishing development of the diversified digital content industry.

Our vision is to create a diverse, compatible, and mutually beneficial digital copyright content ecosystem on TikTok. With billions of creators and users on TikTok, accompanied by an immense amount of submitted content, we aim to satisfy the diverse needs of OGC creators, promote the diversity of TikTok content, and address cutting-edge challenges such as global multi-data centers, massive data processing, ultra-high concurrency, and multimedia processing algorithms for video, images, and sound.

Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of 5-15 backend engineers within OGC for entertainment.
- Collaborate closely with product and operations teams to jointly facilitate positive product iterations.
- Formulate long-term technical/business goals and break them down into actionable roadmaps.
- Foster close collaboration among cross-functional teams, balance trade-offs, and ensure project delivery.
- Guide technical solution design, assist in the growth of team members, and accumulate technical expertise.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Familiarity with common open-source components such as MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, MQ, etc.
- Strong business acumen, data sensitivity, and outstanding logical analysis skills.
- Strong sense of responsibility, excellent communication skills, and collaboration abilities.
- Experience in team management and project management.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with 5 years of work experience in large-scale system development, demonstrating excellent system design capabilities.
- 5 years of experience using Go/Java/Python, with a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in R&D for copyright/media/streaming/entertainment businesses.
- Sensitivity to data, possessing strong skills in data analysis and data mining.
- Have basic understanding of client and front-end tech stacks and capable of making correct technical decisions

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