Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The User Growth team at TikTok leads growth initiatives with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset. In the Organic Acquisition, User Growth team, you will collaborate with external traffic platforms to provide TikTok's high-quality content and services for brand impression and click conversion, thereby obtaining high-quality user traffic. You will lead technical directions such as content mining, content understanding, web UI presentation strategies, and design A/B testing frameworks to measure the contribution of these technologies to traffic acquisition.
Role Overview
As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead and grow a business engineering team of 10+ backend and frontend engineers to build a solid foundation for user growth. You will leverage data to understand our users and our content system in-depth, identify areas of opportunity, and execute projects to drive user growth. You will also lead and develop large-scale software systems that power TikTok user acquisition strategies and improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance, and reliability of the product. Collaboration with multiple cross-functional teams is essential to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
Qualifications
- Experienced in building services for large-scale consumer-facing applications, preferably in search and social media.
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++.
- Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 years experience leading a backend/full-stack engineering team.
- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related major.
Why Join Us
Join a team where creation is the core of our purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive, and this is doubly true for the teams that make TikTok possible. We inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn, innovate, and grow as one team. At TikTok, we create together and grow together, driving impact for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
- 75% premium coverage for dependents
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Short/Long term Disability insurance
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Account options
- 10 paid holidays
- 17 days Paid Personal Time Off
- 10 paid sick days
- 12 weeks paid Parental leave
- 8 weeks paid Supplemental Disability
- 401K company match
- Gym and cellphone service reimbursements
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