Backend Engineer - Search Growth Rec Architecture (ByteDance Singapore)

Responsibilities

About the team Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We cover almost all short-text recommendation scenarios, such as search suggestions, the video-related search bar, and comment entities. Our recommendation system supports personalized sorting for queries, optimizing the user experience and improving search awareness. Responsibilities - Build and maintain high performance online services for search and recommendation system; - Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc; - Build globalized large-scale recommendation system; - Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, with 3+ years of experience building scalable system; - Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang; Preferred Qualifications - Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive; - Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

Job Information

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are 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 enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, 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. 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

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.