Software Engineer

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 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. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

**Responsibilities**:

- Data mining for e-commerce, building tagging system based on massive data, analysing user, traffic, e-commerce and other data, combining with business to improve GMV
- Data analysis, mining, model specific productization; understanding of e-commerce business, able to work with PM to continuously optimize data products based on data-driven
- Develop data mining pipelines to extract data assets (eg. entity labels) from aggregated data and enable the extraction of actionable insights from large volumes of domain data
- Design and development of various strategies, algorithms and machine learning techniques to improve the accuracy and coverage of extracted data assets
- Analyze e-commerce data-related business problems and abstract them into data-related requirements that are then implemented to help resolve key business problems

**Qualifications**:

- B. Sc or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions
- B. Sc or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions
- Background in data structures and algorithms, familiar with one or more: machine learning, natural language processing, data mining
- Familiar with one of the Python/Java/Go/C++ programming languages
- Familiar with common data processing technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm, Flink), with demonstrable coding skills
- Proficiency in data mining, machine learning tools and common frameworks (TensorFlow, Pytorch)
- In-depth research experience in the following areas is preferred

1. Analysis and mining of user behaviour data and construction of user portraits.
2. Data mining experience in vertical industries (e-commerce, finance, games, travel, real estate, etc.).
3. Development and optimization of advertising and recommendation algorithms.

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.