Faraday Future · 3 months ago
Senior Manager Core Platform R&D
Gardena, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expFaraday Future (FF) is a California-based mobility company, leveraging the latest technologies and world’s best talent to realize exciting new possibilities in mobility. As a Sr. Manager (Core Platform R&D), you will lead the architecture and delivery of backend platforms that power the automotive Order-to-Delivery process, payments, and data analytics, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases.
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
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)
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
Company
Faraday Future
Faraday Future designs and manufactures artificial intelligence-based electric vehicles.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.26BKey Investors
AIxCrypto HoldingsMaster Investment GroupStreeterville Capital
2026-02-01Post Ipo Equity· $10M
2025-07-16Post Ipo Equity· $22M
2025-07-16Post Ipo Debt· $82M
Leadership Team
Matthias Aydt
Global CEO, Director of the Board of FFIE
Yueting Jia
Founder and Co-CEO
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