Software Engineer, Lead

Toyota North America • Plano, TX

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About The Position

Toyota Financial Services is seeking a Software Engineering, Lead (Software Engineering Manager) to lead feature‑level execution and guide a small team within our dealer and consumer digital platforms. This role balances hands‑on engineering with technical leadership and delivery ownership and includes people management responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of features or services in production.
• Strong hands-on experience developing Java-based services using modern frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and consuming REST, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs in enterprise environments.
• Practical AWS experience, including ECS, Fargate, serverless components, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and supporting highly available, customer-facing applications and distributed systems.
• Hands-on frontend experience with modern frameworks such as React, Next.js, or Vue, with the ability to review, troubleshoot, and contribute to UI components when needed.
• Strong understanding of full-stack application design, including optimizing APIs for UI consumption, latency, payload efficiency, and clear interface contracts.
• Hands-on frontend experience with modern frameworks such as React, Next.js or Vue with the ability to review, troubleshoot and contribute to UI components when needed.
• Understanding of application data flows, including how feature-level data is persisted, exchanged through APIs and events, and consumed across systems.
• Strong quality mindset with experience in automated, functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Strong troubleshooting and production-support skills, including observability, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in automotive, lending, financial services, or digital commerce, particularly dealer or loan-origination platforms.
• Experience designing event-driven and distributed architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems.
• Experience balancing hands-on engineering with technical leadership responsibilities.
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated contributions to engineering standards, platform modernization, developer experience, or broader engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of features and services, from architecture and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design and build scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant services and APIs supporting dealer and customer-facing experiences.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance on best practices, code quality, and design decisions.
• Own feature‑level architecture for capabilities such as PreQual, Pricing, Incentives, or Funding.
• Coordinate functional, integration, performance, and production-readiness activities to ensure reliable delivery.
• Partner closely with Product, UX, and cross-functional teams to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
• Support dealer integrations and operate high‑availability production systems with a strong reliability mindset.
• Contribute to hiring, mentoring, and team culture, helping grow technical depth and collaboration.
• Foster adherence to Toyota engineering standards, resiliency practices, and operational discipline.

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior