Senior Frontend Engineer: React/Next.js Specialist

Toyota Motor North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

Relocation Assistance

Comprehensive health care and wellness

Job summary

Toyota Financial Services in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Software Engineer – Frontend to design and deliver high-quality web features using React and Next.js. You’ll own components from design through deployment, optimize performance, and collaborate with Product, Design, and backend teams.

You will build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, work with AWS (CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, S3) and implement modern tooling (TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong front-end focus.
• Solid expertise in React and Next.js, including SSR, SSG, App Router, and client/server component patterns.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience with Tailwind CSS and component libraries like shadcn/ui or similar.
• Familiarity with state management using Zustand, Redux Toolkit, or equivalent.
• Experience with schema validation using Zod or similar libraries.
• Ability to design and build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with solid understanding of API contracts, error handling, and type safety.
• Experience deploying and working with front-end applications on AWS, including CloudFront, Lambda@Edge or CloudFront Functions, S3, API Gateway + Lambda.
• Good understanding of front-end performance: code splitting, lazy loading, caching strategies (SWR, React Query), and Core Web Vitals.
• Experience debugging across the stack using browser devtools, network inspection, and log analysis.
• Experience with testing: unit (Vitest/Jest), component (Testing Library), and E2E (Playwright/Cypress).
• Clear communicator – comfortable discussing technical decisions with teammates and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality front-end features using modern React and Next.js patterns, with a strong eye for performance and user experience
• Build and maintain backend API services that support front-end product needs, including RESTful and GraphQL endpoints
• Take ownership of features from design through deployment – including testing, observability, and post-launch monitoring
• Participate actively in technical design discussions, contributing well-reasoned proposals and tradeoff analysis
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues across the front-end and API layers – from UI rendering bugs to slow API responses
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold a high bar in code reviews
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver impactful features
• Identify and address tech debt, performance issues, and reliability gaps proactively

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

State management

RESTful APIs

GraphQL APIs

AWS

Performance optimization

Testing

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Zustand

Redux Toolkit

Zod

shadcn/ui

Job description

Toyota Financial Services in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Software Engineer – Frontend to design and deliver high-quality web features using React and Next.js. You’ll own components from design through deployment, optimize performance, and collaborate with Product, Design, and backend teams.

You will build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, work with AWS (CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, S3) and implement modern tooling (TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui).