Android Software Engineer - TikTok User Growth

Android Software Engineer - Tik Tok User Growth

Location: San Jose

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A103600

About the Team Tik Tok 's User Growth team leads growth initiatives for Tik Tok and all its platforms (e.g. TV, Lite, Web, etc.) with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset. We are seeking talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering to help us reach the next milestone of billions of users. You ll have the opportunity to build best-in-class onboarding experiences for our users as well as define A/B testing frameworks to measure and improve user retention rates.

We encounter a diversity of technical challenges, allowing you to get a firsthand look at what technologies the most innovative organizations are using and be able to build up a bottom-up growth strategy from scratch. You ll be joining a full-stack team that can leverage all of Tik Tok s existing frameworks and be a part of designing and implementing new techniques and foundation work that can further improve user experience and showcase Tik Tok s value proposition.

• Design and implement onboarding features of our mobile application
• Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver a world-class onboarding experience
• Leverage data to deeply understand user behavior and product performance, and identify growth opportunities
• Analyze and optimize the application for efficiency, stability, and performance
• Champion robust, maintainable code, clear documentation, and high-quality delivery in a fast-paced environment

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent majors
• Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of Android platform
• Proficiency in Kotlin/Java
• Ability to understand and debug large and complex code bases
• Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building consumer-facing products
• Experience with Android architecture refactoring, modularization, and optimization
• Experience with Android performance optimization (e.g., cold start, rendering, memory, battery, smoothness)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $316800 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…