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Backend Engineer, TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Infrastructure

Singapore💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-13 → 2026-08-05

Core

Building and optimizing scalable infrastructure for TikTok's e-commerce recommendation systems to support live-streaming, short videos, and product discovery.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (recommendation infrastructure)

Builds

High-performance online services, data pipelines, and large-scale recommendation systems for TikTok Shop

Domain

E-commerce, recommendation systems, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

C, C++, Java, Golang, distributed storage systems, big data frameworks, high-performance computing, software testing and validation

Preferred skills

personalized recommendations, search engines, machine learning, e-commerce domain experience

Technologies

C, C++, Java, Golang

Responsibilities

Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system; Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training; Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems; Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs; Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis; Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures; Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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