TikTok

Graduate Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Live Revenue

To inspire creativity and bring joy. We inform, entertain and inspire people across borders, cultures, and languages.

  • Software engineering

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship ยท No

  • Entry Level ยท A role for someone with underlying potential, good motivation and ability to learn. Typically no direct experience is required.

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Why TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. TikTok has become a marketplace for ideas around the globe, transcending boundaries to create a diverse hub of content.

About the role

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

About TikTok Live Revenue Engineering Team: TikTok Live revenue engineering team is responsible for building the cutting-edge revenue ecosystem which includes gifting and other revenue features that are innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. As an important member of the engineering team, you will build solutions that affect millions of users and live streamers.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build up and optimize a real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming at TikTok. We will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features, and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for live streamers and viewers.

Responsibilities You will: - Plan and lead large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for the iterative development and scale of early products - Develop robust, efficient technology products that serve 1 billion users - Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture - Research and apply cutting-edge domain and technical knowledge into products Qualifications

minimum Qualifications: - Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; - Proficiency in designing data structures, building algorithms, and at least one programming language: Go/Python/PHP/C++/C/Java;

Preferred Qualifications: - Passionate and experience in challenging problem-solving techniques with related internet products; - Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship, excellent communication and teamwork skills and high levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.

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.

In the spirit of reconciliation, TikTok acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Testing and QA

    Ensure high quality work by testing code meets the requirements

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    Backend application development

    Develop, test, and maintain software applications

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    Frontend Application Development

    Develop, test, and maintain the user-side elements of a website or app

Skills you'll need

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Numerical problem solving

    Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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    Attention to detail

    Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables

Meet the team

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