Backend Engineer Intern (TikTok Glocal Ecommerce Recommendation Architecture) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok

  • Singapore
  • Training
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-commerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.For roles looking to start before calendar year 2026 : We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in from Sept. 2025 onwards. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok 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 systems.
- Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications：
- Undergraduate, or Postgraduate who is currently pursuing a degree/master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or a related technical major.
- Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang.
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.Preferred Qualification:
- 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.By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacyIf you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com

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