OverviewWho we're looking for Toyota Financial Services is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to play a critical role in driving architecture, delivery, and technical excellence across key digital platforms. This role blends deep hands-on technical leadership with team leadership, acting as a technical authority and delivery owner for major capabilities across Dealer, Origination, Pricing, and Credit domains.
The ideal candidate is a strong systems thinker who can lead complex initiatives end-to-end, mentor engineers, influence standards across teams, and partner with leadership to shape roadmap and execution strategy.
What you'll be doing - As a Manager, you will: Lead, grow, and retain a team of full-stack and backend engineers - hiring top talent, running performance reviews, coaching, and creating clear paths for career development.
- Lead system design and architecture for complex, distributed platforms supporting PreQual, Credit Pull, Pricing, and Funding workflows
- Own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives-from design through production readiness and operational support .
- Drive the design and implementation of scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient microservices using modern cloud-native patterns.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership to align technical execution with business priorities and roadmap.
- Establish and influence engineering standards across APIs, observability, resiliency, security, and cloud practices.
- Lead API-first and event-driven integrations across dealer portals, origination systems, pricing engines, and downstream consumers.
- Ensure strong production readiness, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational discipline.
- Coach and mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence, building strong technical depth across the team.
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and team scaling, and manage engineers where applicable.
- Champion the use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve developer productivity and delivery quality.
What You Bring- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership on large-scale, distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and microservices architectures.
- Strong experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS, including ECS, Fargate, IAM, and VPC.
- Proven ability to design and operate event-driven architectures for pricing, incentives, and credit workflows.
- Experience integrating credit bureaus, fraud services, and third-party data providers.
- Solid understanding of observability and operational excellence, using tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and explain complex technical decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, and raise technical standards across teams.
UI / Experience Skills- Designs APIs and service contracts with frontend performance and usability in mind.
- Collaborates closely with UI teams to support PreQual, pricing, and credit flows.
- Reviews frontend integration patterns to ensure efficient data exchange and reduced coupling.
Data Skills (Practical, Not Heavy Analytics)- Understands data modeling and data flow across services and events.
- Designs systems that produce clean,reliable data for downstream analytics and reporting.
- Familiar with event payload design, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.
Added Bonus If You Have- AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) certification.
- Experience working within automotive or financial services ecosystems, especially dealer-centric platforms.
- Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock or AI/ML integrations for automation, decisioning, or developer productivity.
- Prior experience balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities.
- Background in driving platform modernization or large-scale system transformations.
What we'll bring During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:
- 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)
