Manager, Engineering

Toyota•Plano, TX

About The Position

Toyota Financial Services is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to play a critical role in driving architecture, delivery, and technical excellence across key digital platforms. This role blends deep hands‑on technical leadership with team leadership, acting as a technical authority and delivery owner for major capabilities across Dealer, Origination, Pricing, and Credit domains. The ideal candidate is a strong systems thinker who can lead complex initiatives end‑to‑end, mentor engineers, influence standards across teams, and partner with leadership to shape roadmap and execution strategy.

Requirements

Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership on large‑scale, distributed systems.
Deep hands‑on expertise with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and microservices architectures.
Strong experience designing and deploying cloud‑native applications on AWS, including ECS, Fargate, IAM, and VPC.
Proven ability to design and operate event‑driven architectures for pricing, incentives, and credit workflows.
Experience integrating credit bureaus, fraud services, and third‑party data providers.
Solid understanding of observability and operational excellence, using tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and explain complex technical decisions.
Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, and raise technical standards across teams.

Nice To Haves

AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) certification.
Experience working within automotive or financial services ecosystems, especially dealer‑centric platforms.
Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock or AI/ML integrations for automation, decisioning, or developer productivity.
Prior experience balancing hands‑on technical leadership with people management responsibilities.
Background in driving platform modernization or large‑scale system transformations.

Responsibilities

Lead, grow, and retain a team of full-stack and backend engineers — hiring top talent, running performance reviews, coaching, and creating clear paths for career development.
Lead system design and architecture for complex, distributed platforms supporting PreQual, Credit Pull, Pricing, and Funding workflows
Own end‑to‑end delivery of major initiatives—from design through production readiness and operational support .
Drive the design and implementation of scalable, fault‑tolerant, and resilient microservices using modern cloud‑native patterns.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership to align technical execution with business priorities and roadmap.
Establish and influence engineering standards across APIs, observability, resiliency, security, and cloud practices.
Lead API‑first and event‑driven integrations across dealer portals, origination systems, pricing engines, and downstream consumers.
Ensure strong production readiness, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational discipline.
Coach and mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence, building strong technical depth across the team.
Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and team scaling, and manage engineers where applicable.
Champion the use of AI‑assisted engineering tools to improve developer productivity and delivery quality.
Designs APIs and service contracts with frontend performance and usability in mind.
Collaborates closely with UI teams to support PreQual, pricing, and credit flows.
Reviews frontend integration patterns to ensure efficient data exchange and reduced coupling.
Understands data modeling and data flow across services and events.
Designs systems that produce clean, reliable data for downstream analytics and reporting.
Familiar with event payload design, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.

Benefits

A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute (if applicable)
Paid holidays and paid time off
Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more
Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
Relocation assistance (if applicable)