At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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The TikTok Eng - PGC Team strives to enrich the TikTok experience by delivering a variety of user and creator-facing products. Our mission is to push the boundaries of the UGC video platform by integrating professional video content and cultivating a more informative community. Key areas in this domain include both user-facing and creator-facing features. For user-facing features, examples include long video playback capabilities, playlists, and fullscreen mode. On the creator-facing side, we offer a dedicated app called TikTok Studio, a comprehensive tool for creators to find inspiration, create, and manage their videos.

Responsibilities
• Collaborate with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams to define a world-class consumption and creation experience.
• Maintain and continuously improve TikTok Studio's frameworks and architecture.
• Build reusable software components with robust code and clear documentation, delivering high-quality work.
• Analyze and optimize mobile applications for quality and performance.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:
• Proficient in Java or Kotlin, strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of Android platforms.
• Solid knowledge of multi-threading, data structure, operating system and network. Solid understanding of Android UI technology principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Ability to work in large and complex code bases.
• Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high quality work on a tight schedule.
• An effective communicator with excellent collaborative skills, strong self motivation and great problem solving skills.
• Willing to take up challenges and grow in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent majors.
• 5+ years of Android native development experience.
• Experience of working in cross-regional teams.

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $355000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.