iOS Software Engineer - TikTok - Singapore

We are the messaging team on TikTok. Our team's mission is to facilitate meaningful user connections through TikTok's messaging experience, which is still in its infancy. We achieve our mission by building and shipping tools that help our users more easily connect and share the things they care about.

We are looking for passionate mobile software engineers to join us and help contribute to our aim of helping users explore and discover the world's creativity, knowledge and moments that matter in everyday life, all while empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones.

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for the iOS client-side development and iteration of TikTok Messaging, building core chat experiences including the chatroom, stickers, and Streak social-interaction features;
2. Develop and optimize real-time Voice & Video Call capabilities and client-side IM infrastructure (IMSDK, on-device data management) to deliver a smooth, and reliable core messaging experience;
3. Explore AI-powered engineering efficiency by building AI skills and knowledge bases and creating AI agents to assist daily development and collaboration workflows, improving the team's overall requirement-iteration efficiency and code quality;
4. Continuously optimize client performance, stability, and smoothness, optimize package size and resource consumption, and improve the user experience.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Information Engineering, or related fields;
2. Strong learning and communication skills, and a sustained passion for technology;
3. Strong logical analysis and system abstraction abilities; able to understand and debug large and complex code bases;
4. Proficient in AI coding tools; those with interest in or practical experience with AI Skills/AI Agents are preferred;
5. Solid computer fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems, etc.); proficient in Objective-C or Swift and familiar with the iOS development framework.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Good team communication and collaboration skills.
2. Passion and experience building consumer-facing products is a huge plus; We would love to hear about apps you've developed.