This listing does not state pay. Across 228 open staff software engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $218,000 to $260,000 and the median is $242,000.

Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.

Staff Software Engineer salaries by state · Check your own pay

How AI is used in this kind of work

Among software developers, AI is already used for some of the tasks. Measured exposure for software developers: 29% (some).

Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

Check how this applies to your own job

Skills this job asks for

Say which you have and which you want to build. We use it to match you to jobs like this one.

About the job

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 Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Affiliate Platform), you will design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power our affiliate platform—including tracking & attribution, commission calculation/settlement, partner management, and anti-fraud controls. You will own critical services end-to-end (design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and reliability) and contribute to adjacent backend platform capabilities as needed (e.g., identity/account, commerce/order/OTD integrations, and analytics instrumentation) across our robotics consumer journey.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and evolve backend services for affiliate domains: event tracking & attribution, commission rules and settlement, partner onboarding/management, and anti-fraud/abuse controls.

Design and maintain clear, versioned REST/gRPC APIs and partner integration patterns (e.g., webhooks/callbacks), with strong backward compatibility and well-defined contracts.

Implement high-throughput event ingestion and durable workflows using datastores + caching + messaging/streaming, ensuring correctness, scalability, and debuggability.

Ensure settlement-grade correctness for financially sensitive flows: idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails, safe retries, and clear state machines.

Improve performance and reliability: profiling, query optimization, caching strategies, load/capacity testing, latency/throughput tuning, and cost-aware scaling.

Operate services in production with strong observability and reliability practices (logs/metrics/traces, SLOs/alerts, incident response) and safe delivery (CI/CD, canary/blue-green releases, zero-downtime migrations).

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or 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 equivalent backend stack with ability to ramp quickly).

Solid distributed systems fundamentals: API design, consistency models, concurrency, resilience patterns, and production troubleshooting.

Production experience on cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

Strong data and messaging experience: relational/NoSQL databases, caching (Redis), and event streaming/queues (Kafka/Kinesis/RabbitMQ).

Demonstrated ability to improve system performance and reliability in production (e.g., latency reduction, throughput increases, capacity planning, incident-driven hardening).

Security, quality, and operational rigor: OAuth2/OIDC concepts, secrets/KMS, automated testing (unit/integration), code reviews, and clear documentation (design docs, API contracts).

Preferred Qualifications:

Direct experience with affiliate/partner platforms: attribution models, partner reporting, commission configuration, payout lifecycle, and dispute/reconciliation workflows.

Experience building anti-fraud/abuse systems (e.g., referral abuse, click spam, bot traffic), including rule-based controls and signal-driven detection.

Experience supporting adjacent platform services beyond affiliate (identity/account, commerce/order/OTD integrations, analytics/telemetry instrumentation).

Robotics industry background (strong plus): robotics/smart hardware ecosystems where digital platforms support real-world product acquisition and ownership lifecycle.

Familiarity with observability/SRE tooling and practices (Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog/New Relic), on-call readiness, and incident postmortems.

Professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English for frequent collaboration with China-based partners/suppliers.

Annual Salary Range:

($150,000,00 - $190,000.00 DOE), plus benefits and incentive plans

Perks + Benefits

Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family)

401(k) options

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.