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Faraday Future · 1 month ago

Senior Engineering Manager (Backend)

Gardena, CA

Contract

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $200K/yr

10+ years exp

Faraday Future is a California-based mobility company focused on innovative technology and user-centric vehicles. The Senior Engineering Manager (Backend) will lead the architecture and delivery of backend platforms for automotive operations, ensuring high performance and reliability across various services.

AutomotiveElectric VehicleElectronic Design Automation (EDA)Information Technology

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

Qualification

JavaAWSMicroservicesAPI DesignSpring BootDockerData AnalyticsObservabilityBilingual Mandarin ChineseSoft Skills

Required

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

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)