Backend Engineer Graduate (ShortText Recommendation Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

About the team Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for recommendation systems to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We cover almost all the short-text recommendation scenarios, such as search suggestions, the video-related search bar, and comment entities. Our recommendation system supports personalized sorting for queries, optimizing the user experience and improving search awareness. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Responsibilities - Build and maintain high performance online services for our recommendation system. - Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc. - Build globalized large-scale recommendation systems. - Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems. Minimum Qualifications: - Final year student with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang. - Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. Preferred Qualifications: - Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with a strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver. - Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@bytedance.com