Software Engineer, Lead (Principal Engineer)
Toyota North America1 day ago
Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design discussions covering APIs, databases, caching, messaging, resilience, and observability.
- Design end-to-end, scalable, maintainable, secure, cloud-native applications and AWS solutions.
- Develop strategies and architectures for cloud data lakes and processing frameworks supporting real-time and near-real-time ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting.
- Evaluate software patterns, tools, and frameworks through proof-of-concepts.
- Establish architectural best practices, maintain technical documentation and diagrams, and support knowledge transfer.
- Collaborate with product owners, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders on technical decisions.
- Mentor junior engineers and lead engineering efforts across teams.
- Support off-hours incident response when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including 3+ years in system or application design.
- Strong foundation in Spring Boot, Java, Python, and/or JavaScript.
- 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 and ECS, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
- Ability to lead engineering teams and cross-functional projects and communicate complex technical decisions effectively.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification is strongly preferred.
- Experience conducting architecture reviews, presenting design proposals, and building hands-on proof-of-concepts is preferred.
- Finance-domain business process automation experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Teamwork-focused and flexible work environment based in Plano, Texas.
- Professional growth and development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program where applicable.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the employee's family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company match and possible annual retirement contribution.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services for prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
- Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA.
- Relocation assistance where applicable.
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?