Sr. Principal Engineer

Toyota North America•Plano, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a highly motivated Sr. Principal Engineer to join their growing team. This role involves working alongside software engineers, machine learning experts, product managers, and engineering leaders to devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. The Sr. Principal Engineer will drive innovation, optimize business outcomes, and promote engineering excellence. They will also mentor internal talent, recruit new team members, and develop long-term technology roadmaps. This position requires operating as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms, and capability domains, sharing knowledge through various communication channels. The role involves leading development and implementation to enable business initiatives, collaborating with leaders and teams across the enterprise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
15+ years of hands-on software development experience
Proven experience in software development with a solid technical foundation with relevant experience in Java, Spring boot, NodeJS, REST API, Real time streaming architectures, microservices architecture patterns
Demonstrated experience in developing scalable applications and platforms
Experience leading, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to foster their professional growth and development.
Deep expertise in software engineering frameworks with experience in designing and implementing cloud native business technology solutions.
Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and GenAI powered SDLC
Proven track record of delivering scalable cloud native solutions addressing cross cutting concerns like logging, application testing and application security and instrumentation by utilizing programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and a variety of AWS tools and services.
Strong communication skills with the ability to move seamlessly between conversing with engineers or frontline ops employees and leading presentations with non-technical stakeholders.
A passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science
Experience with Amazon Web Services and developing software applications leveraging GenAI capabilities.
Demonstrated experience with horizontal platforms or related services and technologies
Good experience architecting large scale, mission critical, cloud-native applications for enterprises.
Experience with distributed database systems (Cassandra, ElasticSearch)
Experience with deploying clustered web services
Experience working with event-driven and microservice architecture.

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Explore new cloud technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential
Develop patterns for cloud to enable emerging business initiatives
Collaborate with tech leaders to drive tech strategy
Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions, and best practices across the enterprise

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 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.
Paid holidays
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).