What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tech Lead Manager Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Seller Business position at TikTok?
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.
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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.
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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.
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Salary : $244,800 - $450,000