Software Engineer Project Intern; Lead Ads BS​/MS

Software Engineer Project Intern (Lead Ads) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Location:

San Jose |

Employment Type:

Intern | Job Code: A75882

Tik Tok Lead Ads team is responsible for building lead generation solutions that enable businesses to create seamless interactions with their customers while ensuring our community feels comfortable and safe on the platform. This team aims to provide intuitive, simplified solutions that grow advertiser activation, retention and ARPA via enhanced delivery experience, performance and higher ROI. Our team owns the end-to-end stack for lead ads, including customer and user experience, ads ranking and delivery, leads management as well as CRM ecosystem.

We are looking for software engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable and reliable systems, partner across functions with global teams, and make big impacts.

• Responsible for the development of scalable and reliable systems aligned with product targets and requirements.
• Build solutions within areas of lead ads management, CRM integration and ecosystem to lay the foundation of lead ads growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define products and drive initiatives from an engineering perspective.

Commitment:
Must be able to commit to at least a 3‑month internship period.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors.
• Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to Go, C/C++, Python.
• Ability to think critically and formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.

• Extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including front‑end applications, large‑scale backend, and data pipeline.

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45 - $60.

Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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:

The company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.