Frontend Software Engineer - Effect House

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Responsibilities
Creative Effects are a big part of the Tik Tok experience. From Versailles Run to Dancing Dino, effects make content creation easy, and fun. Each effect has the potential to reach Tik Tok’s global community of a billion+ users and inspire new trends, lots of joy, and endless creativity. Our mission is to inspire user creativity with powerful creation tools. We are building Effect House, the official Augmented Reality creation tool for Tik Tok.

If you are passionate about AR technologies and 3D content creation, you came to the right place.

You will be responsible for crafting the technology that enables intuitive effect development and design. From advanced interactions to visual scripting, you’ll build the tools our creators need to experiment and make engaging, immersive, and innovative effects, bringing creativity to (augmented) reality! You will focus on building a unified algorithm system that delivers numerous cutting-edge AR algorithms to various Tik Tok products.

Our AR Effect Platform enables the breakthrough AR interactive experience, consumed by hundreds of millions of Tik Tok users around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and implement innovative features for Tik Tok's Effect House, the platform's special effects editor.
- Provide robust support to our rapidly growing effect creator community and internal effect production team, enabling them to realize their creative vision.

Qualifications


Minimum Qualifications :
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.

- Experience with Typescript.
- Understanding of Web based development, and component-based development pattern, familiarity with React, Angular 2.0+, Vue.js, or any other equivalent library/framework

- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field with 3 years of practical experience in relevant domains.

- Experience with Electron, React Native and client-side development is a plus.

- Experience with UI Testing Automation framework such as Jest or React Testing Library is a plus.
- Familiarity with game engines (Unity/Unreal) and real-time rendering, animation, and VFX pipelines is a plus.

About Tik Tok
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At Tik Tok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Tik Tok'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 Tik Tok'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
Tik Tok 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 Tik Tok, 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.

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