Tech Lead: Cloud-Native Java & Microservices

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle

Comprehensive health care and wellness

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking a Tech Lead VPP to drive the direction of critical systems. You will translate complex designs into scalable, real-world solutions and partner with architects and product teams in a fast-moving Agile environment.

You'll own core components, mentor engineers, and uphold best practices in testing, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Plano, TX, this role emphasizes leadership and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in Java/Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST APIs and real-time streaming.
• Experience delivering cloud-native apps on AWS or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with DDD and event-driven architectures in real-world systems.
• Microservices and REST APIs expertise with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Proficient in relational and NoSQL databases and Kubernetes.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions.
• Excellent collaboration across architecture, engineering, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape direction of critical systems and translate designs into scalable solutions.
• Partner with enterprise architects and stakeholders in an Agile environment.
• Design and develop scalable applications using Java/Spring Boot and cloud-native tech.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive technical leadership across the team.
• Own components for performance, reliability, and maintainability; oversee testing and deployment.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

NodeJS

REST API

Real-time streaming

Microservices

Cloud AWS

DDD

Event-driven

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL (Document DB)

Kubernetes

Observability

DevOps tooling

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

Kafka

CloudWatch

Datadog

Prometheus

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Toyota North America is seeking a Tech Lead VPP to drive the direction of critical systems. You will translate complex designs into scalable, real-world solutions and partner with architects and product teams in a fast-moving Agile environment.

You'll own core components, mentor engineers, and uphold best practices in testing, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Plano, TX, this role emphasizes leadership and collaboration.