Backend Software Engineer, User Growth-2025 Start

at  TikTok

Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok’s global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok’s purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.
The Growth team plays a core role in acquisition, activation, and retention of billions of users, through our globally popular products such as TikTok, Resso, CapCut, Helo, etc. We are building platform foundation, leveraging data and ML models, and providing end-to-end solutions to power global growth. Typical Growth projects including creative generating, attribution, ads bot, etc.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates’ jobs globally.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to either of the following Internships

• From January to June
• From May to August (Summer)

Minimum Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related majors;
• Familiar with Golang, Python, JAVA and other programming languages and related frameworks, and have a good grasp of data structures and algorithms;
• Familiar with system design and distributed architecture, mastering Linux, Docker, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse and other systems and components;
• Understand the entire life cycle of software development, and be familiar with requirement decomposition, system design, development testing, online operation and maintenance, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developers with strong self-drive and sense of responsibility, with internship experience in back-end development, and who have participated in complete projects will be given priority

• Participate in the design and development of paid delivery systems for TikTok, Lemon8 and other businesses to grow global users;
• Participate in the construction of basic services such as overseas multi-data center design, privacy compliance transformation, data capture and postback;
• Develop major services such as advertising, material production, media channel connection, event management, and data attribution;
• Apply AIGC capabilities to explore material insights, intelligent template splicing, AIGC material effect verification and capability accumulation, etc.;
  Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related majors;
• Familiar with Golang, Python, JAVA and other programming languages and related frameworks, and have a good grasp of data structures and algorithms;
• Familiar with system design and distributed architecture, mastering Linux, Docker, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse and other systems and components;
• Understand the entire life cycle of software development, and be familiar with requirement decomposition, system design, development testing, online operation and maintenance, etc.;

Preferred Qualifications

• Developers with strong self-drive and sense of responsibility, with internship experience in back-end development, and who have participated in complete projects will be given priority;

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.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.co