Software Engineer, Senior Lead

Toyota North America•Plano, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a highly motivated senior technical leader to help meet its growing needs. Working alongside software engineers, machine learning experts, product managers, and engineering leaders, this role devises practical, reusable solutions to complex problems and drives innovation that supports business outcomes and strong technology solutions. The position leads development and implementation for business initiatives in partnership with leaders and teams across the enterprise. The role promotes engineering excellence and an inclusive culture, mentors and develops technical talent, and contributes hands-on technical expertise. It leads long-term technology roadmaps and serves as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms, and capability domains. The engineer communicates and shares knowledge through clear materials such as code samples and blog posts, and contributes expertise across the organization. This position is based in Plano, Texas. Toyota does not provide immigration-related employment visa or work-authorization sponsorship for this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
15 or more years of hands-on software development experience.
Ability to handle IVR technology and Reliability Engineering.
Software development experience and a strong technical foundation in Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST APIs, real-time streaming architectures, and microservices architecture patterns.
Demonstrated experience developing scalable applications and platforms.
Experience leading, mentoring, and inspiring software engineers, including providing guidance, support, and feedback to foster professional growth.
Deep expertise in software engineering frameworks and experience designing and implementing cloud-native business technology solutions.
Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns and architecture, operations, and GenAI-powered SDLC.
Track record of delivering scalable cloud-native solutions addressing cross-cutting concerns such as logging, application testing, application security, and instrumentation, using languages such as Java, Python, and SQL and AWS tools and services.
Strong communication skills and ability to communicate with engineers, frontline operations employees, and non-technical stakeholders.
Passion for following technology trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in technology communities, mentoring, and occasionally coding or evaluating code.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science.
Experience with Amazon Web Services and developing software applications that leverage GenAI capabilities.
Demonstrated experience with horizontal platforms or related services and technologies.
Experience architecting large-scale, mission-critical, cloud-native enterprise applications.
Experience with distributed database systems such as Cassandra and Elasticsearch.
Experience deploying clustered web services.
Experience working with event-driven and microservice architecture.

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for the assigned domain.
Break complex problems down into practical, operational solutions.
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, including performance, scalability, and operability.
Keep learning and bring advanced technical knowledge into the engineering community.
Handle multiple projects simultaneously and balance time to maximize impact.
Model effective technical leadership and mentor, coach, and strengthen engineering and product community expertise.
Explore cloud technologies and identify opportunities to apply them.
Develop cloud patterns that support emerging business initiatives.
Collaborate with technology leaders to drive technology strategy.
Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions, and best practices across the enterprise.
Lead development and implementation of solutions that enable business initiatives, working with leaders and teams across the enterprise.
Develop long-term technology roadmaps and serve as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms, and capability domains.
Share knowledge through clear communications, code samples, blog posts, and other materials.

Benefits

Professional growth and development programs.
Tuition reimbursement.
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount.
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program, if applicable.
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the entire family.
Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company match and an annual retirement contribution, if applicable.
Paid holidays and paid time off.
Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
Tax-advantaged accounts, including Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA.
Relocation assistance, if applicable.