Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Seller Platform

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.

Who we are

Global e-commerce is content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, active and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive stable and reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

Responsibilities

• Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Global e-commerce Seller Platform
• Optimize backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Collaborate with PM and R&D teams globally, in a fast-paced environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related areas
• 4+ years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Python etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL, Redis, Kafka etc.
• Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style
• Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design
• Exhibit good problem solving skills and team communication / collaboration skills
• Great to have large-scale system design experience
• Great to have E-Commerce products experience

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.

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