TikTok

TikTok

London

Lead Solutions Engineer

Full-Time£200,000 - 250,000 per yearvorgesternUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £200,000 - 250,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Proven experience operating as a Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or in an equivalent senior technical leadership role
  • At least 5 years of experience in programming/coding, technical solution backend design, and delivery to clients or advertisers
  • Familiarity with one or more general programming languages, including Python, Go, Java, or C/C++
  • Strong ability to collaborate, communicate, and manage advertising client and partner relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to tailor presentations to the audiences technical level and comfort delivering technical topics to groups of any size or background
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
  • Preferred: experience in advertising technology working with large-volume data analytics
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the design and development of scalable, production-grade solutions in collaboration with product engineering teams to meet evolving business and client needs
  • Act as a technical leader and subject matter expert across the Solutions Engineering organization, providing architectural guidance and driving engineering excellence
  • Apply our products and technology to identify, develop, and maximize new and existing commercial opportunities with advertising clients
  • Cultivate close partnerships with the customer success team to identify business opportunities and support them in achieving business goals
  • Design and build end-to-end systems and launch strategies, and deliver production-level code with long-term maintainability and scalability in mind, including documentation and test plans
  • Identify stakeholders independently and align cross-functional partners toward project completion goals
  • Build and nurture relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Use data to influence decision-making by presenting business value and impact
Technologies:
  • Backend
  • Support
  • Java
  • Marketing
  • Python

More:

We are a Solutions Engineering team that sits at the intersection of business and engineering, helping our marketing and advertising partners achieve their goals by developing technology solutions tailored to their needs. We are looking for engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset who can work closely with clients to understand problems and create impactful solutions. In this Lead Solution Engineer role, you will partner with business verticals and cross-functional teams across R&D, Customer Success, and Product Management, using our platforms and community to solve real-world business problems.

last updated 34 week of 2026

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About TikTok

TikTok

TikTok

London

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonJavaC++GoScalaAIUI

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