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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Affiliate Platform) - **Company:** Faraday Future - **Location:** El Segundo, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Profiling, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Fraud Prevention and Detection, NoSQL, OAuth, OpenID, Query Optimization, RabbitMQ, Redis, Prometheus, Data Streaming, Web Platforms, Datadog, Spring Cloud, Grafana, Concurrency, Spring-boot, State Machines, Caching, Backend, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Terraform, New Relic (SaaS), Webhooks, Api Management, Docker - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-backend-affiliate-platform-faraday-future-9675995 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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). ## Related Videos - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/162-highest-paying-tech-companies-in-europe) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)