Backend Engineer Graduate (TikTok Shop - Customer Business) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
TikTok
Description
Responsibilities
About the team The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users.
We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands. The team is responsible for developing all of TikTok Shop South East Asia businesses
- which will involve exciting projects covering user growth, homepage, discovery channel.
You'll be tasked with creating a TikTok Shop Platform, collaborating closely with engineers around the globe. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
- we encourage you to apply early.
Candidates who pass resume screening will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment. Responsibilities:
- Develop efficient, highly scalable, and secured services to build/integrate e-Commerce solutions for TikTok Shop.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other disciplines to explore the next generation of shopping experiences on TikTok.
- Be responsible for building an intuitive and reliable shopping experience, including browsing product details, check-out, shopping, return, refund etc.
- Be responsible for TikTok's Shop Tab, building platforms and tools for merchants, clients, and businesses to manage campaigns, deliver the best results, and receive actionable insights.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Coding experience with a general purpose programming language (ie. Java, C/C++, Go, Python).
- Demonstrated knowledge of Redis/MySQL/Elasticsearch/Druid/Spark Streaming.
- Understanding algorithms, data structures, and their time and space performance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on distributed cloud services.
- Good understanding of large scale backend service design.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com