OverviewThis position is based in Plano, TX.Who We're Looking For Toyota Financial Services is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Senior Software Engineering Manager) to lead feature-level execution and guide a small team within our dealer and consumer digital platforms. This role balances hands-on engineering with technical leadership and delivery ownership and includes people management responsibilities where applicable.
The ideal candidate is a strong engineer who can design and deliver high-quality solutions, mentor others, and ensure features are production-ready, scalable, and aligned with Toyota's engineering standards.
What You'll Be DoingAs a Lead Software Engineer you will:
- Lead feature and service development end-to-end, from design and implementation through testing and production support.
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant services and APIs that support dealer and consumer-facing workflows.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance on best practices, code quality, and design decisions.
- Own feature-level architecture for capabilities such as PreQual, Pricing, Incentives, or Funding.
- Coordinate delivery activities including functional, integration, and performance testing, deployment, and production readiness.
- Work closely with Product and cross-functional partners to ensure execution aligns with priorities and timelines.
- Support dealer integrations and operate high-availability production systems with a strong reliability mindset.
- Contribute to hiring, mentoring, and team culture, helping grow technical depth and collaboration.
- Foster adherence to Toyota engineering standards, resiliency practices, and operational discipline.
What You Bring- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of features or services in production.
- Strong hands-on experience building Java-based services using modern frameworks.
- Proven experience with REST, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs within enterprise ecosystems.
- Practical AWS experience, including ECS, Fargate, serverless components, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience supporting dealer-centric platforms and high-availability, customer-facing systems.
- Solid understanding of credit tiers, pricing rules, and incentive/subvention concepts.
- Frontend exposure to React, Next.js, or Vue for dealer or consumer UI flows.
- Strong quality mindset with experience in functional, integration, and performance testing.
- Ability to mentor engineers and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
UI Skills - Works closely with frontend engineers to support end-to-end feature delivery.
- Ensures APIs are optimized for UI consumption (latency, payload size, contract clarity).
- Can review and contribute to React / Next.js components when needed.
Data Skills - Understands how feature-level data is persisted, emitted, and consumed.
- Ensures correctness of request/response payloads and event messages.
- Supports basic data needs for debugging, reporting, and operational analysis.
Added Bonus If You Have- Experience in automotive or financial services domains, especially dealer or origination platforms.
- Prior experience balancing hands-on development with people leadership responsibilities.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Splunk or Dynatrace.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures supporting pricing, incentives, or credit workflows.
- Demonstrated contributions to engineering culture, standards, or platform evolution.
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.
- 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).
