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

Health care and wellness plans

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Toyota North America in Plano, TX is seeking a Tech Lead VPP to shape critical systems and drive scalable, cloud-native solutions in a fast-paced Agile setting. You will translate complex designs into real-world implementations and mentor engineers across teams.

You will own core features, influence architecture, and collaborate with enterprise architects and product teams to align technical direction with business priorities, ensuring reliability and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST APIs, and real-time streaming.
• Experience delivering cloud-native applications on AWS or other major clouds.
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, containers, and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable applications using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies.
• Implement complex architecture with enterprise architects, contributing actively to development efforts.
• Work with stakeholders in Agile environments to align technical solutions with business priorities.
• Bring structure to ambiguous requirements through sound engineering judgment and initiative.
• Own core components, driving performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

NodeJS

REST API

Real-time streaming

Microservices

DDD

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Toyota North America in Plano, TX is seeking a Tech Lead VPP to shape critical systems and drive scalable, cloud-native solutions in a fast-paced Agile setting. You will translate complex designs into real-world implementations and mentor engineers across teams.

You will own core features, influence architecture, and collaborate with enterprise architects and product teams to align technical direction with business priorities, ensuring reliability and long-term maintainability.