Senior Frontend Software Engineer - TikTok Effect House

DescriptionTikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. Why Join UsCreation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.Join us.Creative Effects are a big part of the TikTok experience. From Versailles Run to Dancing Dino, effects make content creation easy, and fun. Each effect has the potential to reach TikTok’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 TikTok. 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 TikTok products. Our AR Effect Platform enables the breakthrough AR interactive experience, consumed by hundreds of millions of TikTok users around the world.Key Responsibilities:- Design and implement innovative features for TikTok'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.QualificationsMinimum 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 relevant experience- 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.TikTok 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 TikTok, 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.TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2RegularExperienced