Senior Lead Software Engineer - Frontend
Toyota North America2 days ago
Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority for frontend architecture, patterns, tooling, and standards across product domains.
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack features spanning user interfaces, APIs, and backend services.
- Lead technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and RFC processes across engineering teams.
- Resolve systemic performance, reliability, scaling, debugging, and technical debt issues across the full stack.
- Define engineering practices for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment safety.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product, and Design on roadmaps and technical feasibility.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design feedback, and technical guidance.
- Conduct technical interviews and help establish frontend engineering standards.
- Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience with a strong frontend focus and principal- or staff-level impact.
- Deep expertise in React and Next.js, including App Router, SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, and advanced rendering patterns.
- Strong TypeScript proficiency and experience with Tailwind CSS, component libraries, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, Zod, or equivalent tools.
- Experience designing and maintaining RESTful and GraphQL APIs, including contracts, versioning, error handling, and type-safe client generation.
- Experience building AWS serverless backend services using API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, S3, DynamoDB, or RDS.
- Strong knowledge of frontend performance, browser debugging, network tracing, distributed tracing, logging, and profiling.
- Experience with unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Familiarity with Turborepo, Nx, Vite, esbuild, and Webpack.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including RFC writing and design-review leadership.
- A Master's degree, financial-services experience, design-system ownership, micro-frontends experience, AWS event-driven architecture, React Native, GenAI frontend integrations, AWS certifications, open-source contributions, or organization-wide technical leadership is preferred.
Benefits
- Professional growth and development programs and tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and, if applicable, Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program.
- Comprehensive healthcare and wellness plans for the employee's family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company matching and, if applicable, an annual retirement contribution regardless of employee contributions.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services for prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and related needs.
- Tax-advantaged Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA.
- Position is based in Plano, TX, and requires residence within a commutable distance.
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About Toyota North America
At Toyota, we’re known for making some of the highest quality vehicles on the road. But there is more to our story. We believe in putting people first and creating opportunities for our team members to build careers as unique as they are. As one of the world’s most admired brands, we are leading the way to the future of mobility, so everyone can move freely, happily and comfortably. We have big dreams and believe that nothing is impossible. Ready to Dream, Do and Grow with us?