Tech Lead Backend Software Engineer

5 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development • $224,000 PA - $410,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Tech Lead Backend Software Engineer at Lemon8 (ByteDance), you'll design and develop large-scale software systems powering the Lemon8 app, ensuring high stability and performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams in rapid product development, designing system models meeting international business needs and scalability. Responsibilities include collaborating with Product Managers and business partners, ensuring system quality, guiding engineers, and cooperating with global teams for new product innovations. You'll work on a platform featuring photos and videos across various lifestyle categories like beauty, fashion, food, and travel, targeting users interested in high-quality content.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in Go, Java, C++, Python
  • Strong programming fundamentals
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Excellent communication and teamwork
Good to have:
  • Experience with backend services for large-scale consumer apps
  • Experience building social/community products
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Wellbeing benefits

Job Details

Responsibilities
About Lemon8 Lemon8 is a lifestyle content community featuring photos and videos of various categories such as beauty, fashion, food, travel, home, fitness, and pets. Our target users are people who enjoy exploring their interests by consuming informative and high-quality content. Lemon8 currently operates in Japan, the SEA region (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Vietnam), the UK and the US. Why Join Us Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us. As a Software Engineer on our Backend team, you will: - Develop large-scale software systems that power the Lemon8 app. - Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services. - Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development. Responsibilities: - Design system model and business architecture that meets international business needs and has scalability based on business functionalities and industry best practices. - Collaborate with Product Managers and work with multiple business partners to initiate and develop software solutions. - Ensure the quality and stability of the system, and provide guidance to engineers at all levels to continuously optimize the system. - Cooperate with global XFN teams to support new product innovations and business proposals, and continuously explore new initiatives from the engineering perspective.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related areas - 5+ years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python etc. - Strong programming fundamentals with excellent design and coding style. - Proficient experience in designing, evaluating, and optimizing the efficiency, scalability, and stability of complex distributed systems. - Excellent communication and teamwork skills. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications. - Experience in building social/community products. 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. ByteDance Inc. 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 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.

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Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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.

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