Lead/Principal Software Engineer (AWS, Java/Python)
Toyota North America
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Toyota North America is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive enterprise-scale software solutions within the TFS platform. You will design, implement, and scale platform features, collaborating with product managers, architects, and engineers to deliver high-quality code.
With 10+ years of experience, you will influence API design, AWS architecture choices, and observability practices while mentoring teammates and growing the contractor community.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with backend/full-stack focus.
- Proven ability to design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs with versioning and error handling.
- Deep expertise in AWS architectures including serverless, containers, and event-driven solutions.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and quality checks.
- Strong troubleshooting, observability and performance tuning skills.
- Excellent collaboration and communication with product managers, architects and engineers.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions.
- Lead design and architecture of platform-level features for reliability and scaling.
- Proactively communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Define and champion engineering and operational excellence across code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Mentor internal talent and actively recruit to grow the TFS engineering community.
- Drive AWS architecture decisions across serverless, containers, and data services.
- Build observable systems to track performance of distributed services and troubleshoot issues.
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Job description
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world‑changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best‑in‑class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.
Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment‑based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration‑related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, ‘job flexibility benefits’ [also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability], etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.
The TFS Enterprise Document Management Platform team is seeking a highly motivated person to fill an opening as a Lead Software Engineer role to help our growing Enterprise needs.The Lead Software Engineer will build on their passion for software engineering and combine with skills for operational excellence to build solutions to scale industry best practices and design patterns.
As a Lead Engineer, you will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects and other tech leads to understand requirements, design innovative solutions, and guide a squad of engineers in delivering high‑quality, functional application code.
The Lead Software Engineer has a pivotal role within a software factory.They must leverage their technical expertise to drive innovation and deliver impactful business outcomes. Additionally, they should possess strong collaboration skills to work with other technologists, lead development of independent components and sub-groups within the factory.
- Collaborate with agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions
- Collaborate with product and cross‑functional partner teams to ensure alignment in priorities and timelines
- Lead the design and architecture of new and existing platform level features (design patterns, reliability, scaling, backup & restore)
- Proactively communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders
- Define and champion engineering and operational excellence: code quality, testing strategies, observability, and deployment safety
- Promote a culture of inclusive environment where the ideas of other tech leads can be heard and championed.
- Lead the way in creating next‑generation talent for TFS, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
- Deep expertise in designing and building AWS architectures, including serverless, containerized, and event‑driven solutions:
- EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions for compute and workflow
- API Gateway (REST and HTTP APIs) for service exposure
- DynamoDB/ Document DB for data persistence
- EventBridge, SQS, or SNS, MSK for event‑driven communication
- S3 for object storage and data lake patterns
- CloudFront for API acceleration and edge caching
- OpenSearch for advanced search and analytics
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and brokers like Kafka.
- Skilled at troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues quickly and efficiently.
- Proficiency in setting up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, incorporating automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment strategies.
- Experience building observable systems to track the performance of distributed services, trace issues, and troubleshoot failures.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with product managers, architects and other engineers to define technical requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or full‑stack focus and a track record of operating at a principal engineer level
- Proven ability to design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs, including API contract design, versioning and error handling
- Deep expertise in designing and building AWS architectures, including serverless, containerized, and event‑driven solutions:
- EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions for compute and workflow
- API Gateway (REST and HTTP APIs) for service exposure
- DynamoDB/ Document DB for data persistence
- EventBridge, SQS, or SNS, MSK for event‑driven communication
- S3 for object storage and data lake patterns
- CloudFront for API acceleration and edge caching
- OpenSearch for advanced search and analytics
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and brokers like Kafka.
- Skilled at troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues quickly and efficiently.
- Proficiency in setting up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, incorporating automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment strategies.
- Experience building observable systems to track the performance of distributed services, trace issues, and troubleshoot failures.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with product managers, architects and other engineers to define technical requirements.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or OpenTofu.
- Proficiency in Bedrock Data Automation, AWS Textract, Transcribe and other AI/ML solutions, evaluation frameworks
- Proficiency in customization of CI/CD workflows and managing multiple environments.
- A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as 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 (if applicable)
- Paid holidays and 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)
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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