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The e-Commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-Commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-Commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands. This Forward Deployed Engineer will be responsible for partnering with external clients such as ISVs and merchants, to better improve their experience in working with TikTok Shop. They will be responsible for understanding the TikTok Shop platform ecosystem, and continue to design integration solutions for varying business scenarios.
- Gain deep understanding of TikTok Shop API capabilities and the platform ecosystem, and design integration solutions tailored to various business scenarios.
- Collaborate with key merchants, ISVs, and partner technical teams to guide them through API integration implementation and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain standardized solution architectures, reference designs, and best practice documentation, and drive adoption internally and externally.
- Evaluate integration feasibility for new product features, providing optimization recommendations to align platform capabilities with market needs.
- Partner with product, engineering, and ecosystem teams to gather feedback, address integration challenges, and support API capability iterations.
- Provide technical consultation during pre-sales and post-sales phases, including solution review, technical troubleshooting, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Advocate TikTok Shop API integration solutions through industry events, partner training, and developer community engagement to drive adoption.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in technical solution design, solution engineering, or pre-sales engineering.
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and debugging, with solid understanding of data structures and system architecture.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and client communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Fast learner with the ability to adapt to new technologies and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Experience in e-Commerce platforms or SaaS products.
- Experience integrating with e-commerce, ERP, OMS, PIM, or WMS systems is a strong plus.
- Love content and enjoy shopping.
- Experience in e-Commerce merchandising platforms, seller onboarding tools, or buyer-seller matchmaking systems.
About TikTok
TikTok 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 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 TikTok'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
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 Accommodation
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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $115520 - $198360 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
The e-Commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-Commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-Commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands. This Forward Deployed Engineer will be responsible for partnering with external clients such as ISVs and merchants, to better improve their experience in working with TikTok Shop. They will be responsible for understanding the TikTok Shop platform ecosystem, and continue to design integration solutions for varying business scenarios.
- Gain deep understanding of TikTok Shop API capabilities and the platform ecosystem, and design integration solutions tailored to various business scenarios.
- Collaborate with key merchants, ISVs, and partner technical teams to guide them through API integration implementation and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain standardized solution architectures, reference designs, and best practice documentation, and drive adoption internally and externally.
- Evaluate integration feasibility for new product features, providing optimization recommendations to align platform capabilities with market needs.
- Partner with product, engineering, and ecosystem teams to gather feedback, address integration challenges, and support API capability iterations.
- Provide technical consultation during pre-sales and post-sales phases, including solution review, technical troubleshooting, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Advocate TikTok Shop API integration solutions through industry events, partner training, and developer community engagement to drive adoption.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in technical solution design, solution engineering, or pre-sales engineering.
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and debugging, with solid understanding of data structures and system architecture.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and client communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Fast learner with the ability to adapt to new technologies and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Experience in e-Commerce platforms or SaaS products.
- Experience integrating with e-commerce, ERP, OMS, PIM, or WMS systems is a strong plus.
- Love content and enjoy shopping.
- Experience in e-Commerce merchandising platforms, seller onboarding tools, or buyer-seller matchmaking systems.
About TikTok
TikTok 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 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 TikTok'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
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 Accommodation
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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $115520 - $198360 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Power Apps Developer
Target Microsoft ecosystem employers
Companies that have standardized on Microsoft 365 and Azure tend to have dedicated Power Platform teams and recurring H-1B sponsorship histories. Focus your search on mid-size to enterprise firms in consulting, finance, and healthcare.
Get Microsoft Power Apps certified
The PL-900 and PL-400 certifications signal verified competency to hiring managers. Certified candidates stand out in applicant pools and demonstrate the kind of measurable skill that helps employers justify the sponsorship process to their HR teams.
Clarify your OPT timeline upfront
STEM OPT extension applicants can work for up to three years total on F-1 status. Communicating this clearly to recruiters removes the assumption that your authorization expires quickly and gives employers confidence in the hiring investment.
Highlight enterprise automation outcomes
Quantify what your Power Apps solutions actually did, such as reducing manual processes or cutting approval cycle times. Employers sponsoring visas want evidence of business impact, not just familiarity with the platform.
Prioritize consulting and staffing firms
IT consulting firms and Microsoft solution partners frequently hire Power Platform developers and have established OPT and H-1B sponsorship pipelines. Their client-facing delivery model creates consistent demand for this skill set year-round.
Apply early relative to your OPT end date
Sponsorship conversations take time to move through legal and HR approval. Starting your search at least four to five months before your OPT expires gives employers enough runway to begin the H-1B process without pressure.
Power Apps Developer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Power Apps Developer qualify as a STEM OPT role?
Yes, Power Apps Developer roles typically qualify for the STEM OPT extension because they fall under computer science, information systems, or computer and information research science CIP codes. That means eligible F-1 students can work for up to three years on OPT. You need to confirm your degree is on the STEM Designated Degree Program List and that your employer agrees to meet the formal training plan requirements.
Do Power Apps Developer employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas?
Many do, particularly large consulting firms, Microsoft solution partners, and enterprise technology departments in sectors like finance, healthcare, and logistics. Power Platform development is classified as a specialty occupation because it requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field. You can browse Power Apps Developer roles from verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate.
Can I work as a Power Apps Developer on day one of OPT?
Yes, as long as your OPT employment authorization document has been approved and your start date has arrived. Your role must be directly related to your field of study, so a computer science or information systems background supports this clearly. Keep a copy of your EAD and offer letter together, as employers may request both for their I-9 records.
What happens if my OPT expires before my H-1B is approved?
If your employer files your H-1B petition by April 1 and USCIS selects it in the lottery, you may be protected by cap-gap coverage, which extends your F-1 status and work authorization through September 30. You need to remain continuously employed by the same petitioning employer during cap-gap. Gaps in employment during this period can complicate your status, so planning the transition carefully with your DSO matters.
What degree backgrounds qualify OPT students for Power Apps Developer roles?
Computer science, management information systems, software engineering, and business information technology are the most directly relevant backgrounds. Some employers also consider degrees in data analytics or electrical engineering if the candidate has demonstrated Power Platform experience. The key is that your degree program is listed as STEM-eligible, which is what determines your OPT extension eligibility, not just your job title.