Senior Engineering Manager (Backend)

The Company:

Faraday Future (FF) is a California-based mobility company, leveraging the latest technologies and world’s best talent to realize exciting new possibilities in mobility. We’re producing user-centric, technology-first vehicles to establish new paradigms in human-vehicle interaction. We’re not just seeking to change how our cars work – we’re seeking to change the way we drive. At FF, we’re creating something new, something connected, and something with a true global impact.

Your Role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager (Backend), you will lead the architecture and delivery of backend platforms that power our business end-to-end automotive Order-to-Delivery (OTD), payments, identity and account management, data and analytics, and more. You will own end-to-end execution across microservices, APIs, messaging, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure; define engineering standards; drive reliability, performance, and security; collaborate closely with product, security, and data teams; and mentor engineers to deliver high-quality, incremental releases.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Develop and Maintain Backend Services: Design, implement, and sustain high-performance backend services for web and in-vehicle infotainment applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and responsiveness.
• Implement Modern Backend Practices: Utilize Java and related frameworks (Spring Cloud, Dubbo) to build scalable, maintainable services that effectively support frontend interfaces and IVI systems.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and UX/UI teams to define clear API specifications and interface documents, ensuring seamless integration and excellent user experience.
• Optimize System Performance: Employ monitoring and performance optimization techniques to ensure backend services are efficient, responsive, and resilient under diverse conditions.
• Ensure Robust Testing and Quality Assurance: Develop comprehensive unit and integration tests, leveraging frameworks like JUnit, to maintain high code quality and reliability.
• Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy and maintain applications leveraging cloud services (AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years building and operating production backend systems for internet platforms; 3+ years as a technical lead/architect driving multi‑service delivery.
• Advanced proficiency with Java (Java 17+), Spring Boot/Spring Cloud; strong REST/gRPC API design, event‑driven architecture, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Production experience on AWS (e.g., EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, RDS/Aurora or DynamoDB, ElastiCache/Redis) and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform or CloudFormation); containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Solid data and messaging skills: relational & NoSQL stores (PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/DynamoDB), caching (Redis), and streaming/queues (Kafka/MSK or RabbitMQ/Kinesis).
• Reliability, performance, and security mindset: SLO/SLA design, observability (OpenTelemetry; logs/metrics/traces), secure design (OAuth2/OIDC, secrets/KMS), and automated testing (JUnit, Test containers; contract/load testing).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional working proficiency Bilingual Mandarin Chinese
• Platform Domains: payments (e.g., Stripe/Adyen), identity & access (OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC; Cognito/Okta/Keycloak), OTD orchestration, API gateway & rate‑limiting.
• Architecture & Tooling: microservices patterns (sagas/outbox, resilience4j), service discovery/mesh (Nacos/Eureka/ZooKeeper; Istio/Linkerd), gRPC; Dubbo is a plus.
• Data & Analytics: event streaming (Kafka/Flink) and batch workflows (Airflow/Spark), data lakes on S3; schema design and query tuning.
• DevOps & Delivery: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins; blue/green or canary deployments; trunk‑based development; policy‑as‑code; zero‑downtime migrations.
• Observability & SRE: Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog/New Relic; alerting and incident response; capacity planning; performance testing (k6/JMeter).

Salary Range:

($160K-$200K DOE) plus benefits and incentives plans

 Benefits:

• Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family)
• 401(k) options
• Relocation assistance + reimbursement
• Casual dress code + relaxed work environment
• Culturally diverse, progressive atmosphere

Faraday Future is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.