Lead Software Engineer, Front-End Engineering
Toyota North AmericaResponsibilities
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and deployment of complex front-end features.
- Build and maintain full-stack features spanning polished user interfaces, APIs, and backend services.
- Drive technical design discussions and architecture decisions within the team and project domain.
- Resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, technical debt, and complex full-stack issues.
- Establish engineering practices for code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering teams to shape technically feasible features.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design feedback, and technical guidance.
- Participate in technical interviews and help identify front-end engineering talent.
- Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong front-end focus and technical leadership experience.
- Strong expertise in React and Next.js, including App Router, SSR, SSG, and modern rendering patterns.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, component libraries, state management, schema validation, and form handling.
- Ability to design and build RESTful and GraphQL APIs with API contracts, error handling, and type-safe client integration.
- Experience with AWS serverless services including API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, or RDS.
- Understanding of front-end performance optimization, browser debugging, network analysis, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Experience with unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing using tools such as Vitest, Jest, Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Familiarity with Vite, esbuild, Webpack, Turborepo, or Nx.
- Strong communication skills for documenting decisions, leading design discussions, and explaining tradeoffs.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, financial-services experience, design-system experience, micro-frontend experience, AWS event-driven architecture experience, React Native experience, GenAI front-end integration, AWS certifications, open-source contributions, and technical initiative or ADR leadership.
Benefits
- Professional growth and development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and, if applicable, Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the employee's family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company matching and an annual retirement contribution, if applicable.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services for prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
- Tax-advantaged Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA accounts.
- Relocation assistance, if applicable.
- Teamwork-focused, flexible, and respectful work environment.
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About Toyota North America
Mundialmente, a Toyota construiu, ao longo de mais de 80 anos, um modelo de negócio reconhecido por suas bases de eficiência e busca contínua da produtividade, movida pela ambição de colaboradores aptos a oferecer soluções de mobilidade cada vez melhores às pessoas. No Brasil, em mais de 65 anos de história, a marca consolidou-se ao construir um legado pautado na busca incansável pela melhoria contínua de processos, estratégias, produtos e serviços, além de solidificar cada relacionamento no decorrer dos anos pelo viés do Respeito pelas Pessoas e Contribuição com a Sociedade – valores transversais da cultura da corporação. Aqui no País, a subsidiária da Toyota mantém ativamente três unidades produtivas: Indaiatuba, Sorocaba e Porto Feliz (todas localizadas no Estado de SP), e orgulha-se por deter o título de primeira operação fora do Japão, quando iniciou atividades no município de São Bernardo do Campo, em meados de 1962. Para mover este legado adiante, a empresa conta com 6.000 colaboradores, sempre aptos a vencer desafios do cotidiano do setor e aprimorar competências que são fundamentais para o surgimento de talentos fundamentais para o futuro da companhia no Brasil.