Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $244800 - $450000 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.
