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Backend Engineer - TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Infrastructure

Singapore💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Build and maintain high-performance online services, data pipelines, and large-scale recommendation infrastructure for TikTok's e-commerce recommendation systems.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (recommendation infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable recommendation systems, data pipelines, and high-performance computing frameworks for TikTok Shop

Domain

E-commerce, Recommendation Systems, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C, C++, Java, Golang, scalable system design, data pipeline engineering, high-performance computing, distributed storage, software testing

Preferred skills

e-commerce domain knowledge, personalized recommendations, search engines, machine learning, big data frameworks

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.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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