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Senior Full-Stack Engineer - TikTok Open Platform

san jose, CA

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TikTok lists this Senior Full-Stack Engineer - TikTok Open Platform opportunity in san jose, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Location

San Jose

Employment Type

Regular

Job Code

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Responsibilities

End-to-End Architecture & Development: Lead the full-stack architecture design and core feature development for TikTok Open Platform's enterprise (B2B) products, spanning front-end applications, backend APIs, data models, and delivery pipelines.

Enterprise Platform & Workflow Building: Build high-availability, easily extensible, and UI/UX-consistent mid-to-back-office products and infrastructure around complex developer, merchant, and operations workflows.

Front-End Infrastructure & Engineering: Drive the construction of front-end engineering systems, including component libraries, state management, micro-frontends/modular architectures, performance optimization, quality assurance, and telemetry/monitoring.

Backend Integration & Standards: Design domain models, APIs, RBAC/ABAC permissions, tenant isolation, and audit controls. Establish standardized front-end/backend contracts and drive public capability reusability.

AI Tooling & Workflow Optimization: Deeply utilize AI coding tools and Agent capabilities (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to boost end-to-end delivery efficiency. Standardize AI integration across prototyping, UI restoration, API integration testing, Code Reviews, and technical documentation.

AI-Powered Product Innovation: Lead the integration of AI capabilities into B-side products (e.g., smart form auto-fill, natural language configuration/queries, AI-driven low-code generation).

Technical Governance & Leadership: Drive troubleshooting for complex cross-stack/cross-service issues. Take ownership of key business pipeline stability, observability, and long-term tech debt reduction.

Qualifications

Job Information

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $ - $ 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:

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

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

Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Accommodation

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

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san jose, CA, 95199, US

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