Software Engineering, Lead
Toyota North America6 days ago
Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead design discussions for APIs, databases, caching layers, messaging, resilience, and observability.
- Design end-to-end architecture for financial services applications in collaboration with product owners and technical teams.
- Analyze trade-offs and propose scalable, maintainable, secure solutions aligned with business goals.
- Lead AWS engineering efforts and evaluate new software patterns, tools, and frameworks through proofs of concept.
- Develop architecture and best practices for cloud-based data lakes and real-time or near-real-time ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting.
- Design cloud-native applications using AWS services, serverless workflows, and modern architecture practices.
- Incorporate security and DevSecOps principles into application architecture.
- Maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, reusable design decisions, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Mentor junior engineers and coordinate technical decisions with cross-functional teams.
- Support off-hours incident response when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, 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 and containers such as EKS and ECS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software development methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and cross-functional projects and communicating complex technical decisions.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification is strongly preferred.
- Experience conducting architecture reviews, presenting design proposals, and delivering hands-on proofs of concept is preferred.
- Finance-domain business process automation experience is preferred.
- Ability to work in the United States without current or future employment-based immigration sponsorship.
Benefits
- Professional growth and development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program when applicable.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the employee’s family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company matching and an annual retirement contribution when applicable.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
- Tax-advantaged Health Savings, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA accounts.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
- Position is based in Plano, Texas.
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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?