Software Engineering Lead

Toyota North America • Plano, TX

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About The Position

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for its Banking and Commercial Lending team. Based in Plano, Texas, this role collaborates with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for applications across the financial services portfolio. The lead guides engineering work on scalable, maintainable, secure, and cloud-native solutions, particularly AWS solutions and data platforms supporting real-time and near-real-time processing.

The role also incorporates security and DevSecOps principles, evaluates software patterns and tools, maintains architecture documentation, and mentors junior engineers. The Engineering Lead works across functions to align technical decisions with business priorities and organizational goals. The position may involve off-hours incident response when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including at least 3 years in system or application design.
• Strong foundation in Spring Boot, Java, Python, and/or JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing and deploying large-scale, multi-region cloud-native solutions, preferably on AWS.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, containers such as EKS/ECS, and related services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software development methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and cross-functional projects.
• Adaptable, mission-aligned people leader who thrives in dynamic environments and embraces collaboration.
• Ability to support off-hours incident response when needed.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification (strongly preferred).
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, presenting design proposals, and developing hands-on end-to-end proofs of concept.
• Experience with finance-domain business process automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions on system components, including APIs, databases, caching layers, messaging, resilience, and observability.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end application architecture across the financial services portfolio.
• Analyze trade-offs and propose scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions tailored to business goals.
• Evaluate and introduce software patterns, tools, and frameworks through proofs of concept.
• Lead engineering efforts for AWS solutions and stay current with related technology advancements.
• Identify opportunities, develop strategies, design architecture, and establish best practices for cloud-based data lakes and processing frameworks supporting real-time and near-real-time ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting.
• Design cloud-native applications using AWS services and modern architecture practices, including declarative coding, serverless workflows, and computing.
• Incorporate security and DevSecOps principles into application architecture to support protection and compliance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and best practices, and support alignment, reuse, and knowledge transfer of architecture artifacts.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster innovation, excellence, and continuous learning.
• Work with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with organizational vision and business priorities.

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 employee's 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.

What This Job Offers

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