Frontend Software Engineer, Global E-Commerce Data Intelligence

$129,200 - $194,750/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy to over 1 billion users globally. The company is expanding its global e-commerce business, which focuses on content-driven e-commerce, aiming to be the first choice for users to discover and purchase quality products at affordable prices. The global e-commerce team is dedicated to enhancing user experiences by providing tailored, active, and efficient consumption experiences, while also ensuring that merchants receive reliable platform services across various scenarios, including live e-commerce and short video content e-commerce. The data insights team plays a crucial role in developing data analytics and data-empowered platform capabilities across the global e-commerce sector. Their mission is to empower users to leverage data to extract actionable insights, maximizing their potential and efficiency on the platform. The team aims to distill facts, attribute causes, and predict future trends from vast amounts of data, ultimately reflecting business impact and supporting key decisions by simplifying the decision-making process and enhancing its efficacy and efficiency. As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and developing efficient, reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications for e-commerce products. This role involves optimizing code to improve the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of web applications. You will collaborate closely with product design, product management, and software engineering teams to deliver a best-in-class user experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop efficient and highly reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications for e-commerce products.
• Optimize code to improve scalability, reliability, security, and performance of web applications.
• Collaborate with product design, product management, and software engineering teams to deliver best-in-class user experience.

Requirements

• B. Sc or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions.
• 2+ years experience in frontend engineering, with demonstrable experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS, React/Vue/Angular and packaging frameworks like Webpack/Rollup/BaBel/AST/Gulp. Qualified fresh graduates would also be considered.
• Familiar with key concepts like functional and asynchronous programming, closures and types, layouts, specificity, animation, cross-browser compatibility, data security, and accessibility.
• Good understanding of multi-tier application architecture and protocols, familiarity with product and software development lifecycle process.
• Demonstrable experience in developing data visualization or data insights web/mobile applications is advantageous.

Nice-to-haves

• Agile, quick self-learner, highly self-motivated with a strong sense of product ownership, and creative problem solver.
• Deeply passionate about software coding/development and building great mobile/web applications.
• Ability to lead independent research to solve complex technical problems.
• Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast-moving, culturally diverse, and globally distributed team environment.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym, and cellphone service reimbursements.