Faraday Future
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Affiliate Platform)
$150K–$190K
El Segundo, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related discipline.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates backend services and APIs for Faraday Future’s affiliate platform, including tracking, commissions, partner management, and fraud controls.
What you'll do
- Build affiliate backend services and partner integrations, including versioned REST/gRPC APIs and webhooks.
- Develop reliable, high-throughput event workflows and financially accurate settlement processes.
- Operate and improve production services through performance tuning, observability, incident response, and safe releases.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 6+ years building and operating production backend systems for consumer, commerce, or growth platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Java (Java 17+) and Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, or an equivalent backend stack.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, containers, Infrastructure-as-Code, databases, caching, messaging, production reliability, and security/quality practices.
Nice to have
- Direct affiliate/partner platform or anti-fraud/abuse systems experience.
- Robotics background, observability/SRE experience, or professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English.
Pay
($150,000,00 - $190,000.00 USD) base salary
Tools
Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation
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