The role
From TikTok's own posting.
The Global E-commerce, Seller Business team plays a critical role in driving the success of our Global E-commerce platform. We are dedicated to building and nurturing a thriving ecosystem of local and abroad sellers who bring diverse products, brands, and innovations to our marketplace on TikTok.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of scalable commerce platform integrations across domains such as product catalog, order management, fulfillment, merchant onboarding, customer service, and partner ecosystem infrastructure.
- Build highly scalable distributed systems supporting cross-platform synchronization for products, orders, fulfillment, reviews, and merchant operations.
- Drive architecture decisions focused on reliability, scalability, API quality, merchant experience, and operational stability across large-scale commerce integrations.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through system design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
- Collaborate closely with globally distributed engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities supporting international commerce expansion initiatives.
- Lead technical problem-solving across complex integration environments involving APIs, distributed systems, third-party platforms, and merchant infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, operations, partner, and engineering teams to improve merchant onboarding, retention, growth, and platform adoption.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of experience building scalable backend or distributed systems for commerce platforms, marketplace infrastructure, payment systems, ERP systems, SaaS integrations, or other complex business platforms.
- 2+ years of experience serving as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead Manager in high-scale engineering organizations, who remain technically hands-on and actively contribute to technical architecture and engineering execution.
- Strong proficiency in backend engineering using Java, Golang, Python, or similar modern programming languages.
- Deep expertise in system design, scalability, reliability engineering, and high-availability distributed systems.
- Comfortable operating in highly collaborative, cross-functional, and globally distributed engineering environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience integrating with major commerce ecosystems such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, WooCommerce, or similar platforms.
- Experience building merchant-facing infrastructure, platform integrations, or partner ecosystem solutions.
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and developer productivity tooling is preferred.