Sr. Principal Engineer

Overview

We are Toyota Financial Services (TFS), a finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. TFS is a separate business entity yet an essential part of the Toyota family, delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. This role is based in Plano, TX. We do not offer sponsorship for employment-based visas.

We seek a highly motivated Sr. Principal Engineer to help meet our growing needs.

You will work alongside a talented team of software engineers, machine learning experts, product managers, and engineering leaders. As a Sr. Principal Engineer you will lead through technical contributions, develop long‑term technology roadmaps, drive innovation, promote engineering excellence, and mentor internal talent. You will serve as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms, and capability domains, creating clear communications and sharing knowledge internally and externally.

You will also specialize in a particular subject area, and your impact will be sought across the organization.

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non‑functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community.
• Explore new cloud technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential.
• Develop patterns for cloud to enable emerging business initiatives.
• Collaborate with tech leaders to drive tech strategy.
• Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions, and best practices across the enterprise.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 15+ years of hands‑on software development experience.
• Proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST API, real‑time streaming architectures, microservices patterns.
• Experience developing scalable applications and platforms.
• Leading, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software engineers.
• Deep expertise in software engineering frameworks and cloud‑native technology solutions.
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and GenAI‑powered SDLC.
• Track record delivering scalable cloud‑native solutions with cross‑cutting concerns like logging, testing, security, and instrumentation.
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Passion for staying on top of tech trends, learning new technologies, participating in technology communities, and mentoring others.
• Bonus:
  Master’s degree in computer science.
• Experience with AWS and GenAI capabilities.
• Experience architecting large‑scale, mission‑critical, cloud‑native applications.
• Experience with horizontal platforms, distributed databases (Cassandra, Elastic Search), clustered web services, event‑driven and microservice architecture.

Benefits include a collaborative work environment, flexibility, professional growth programs including tuition reimbursement, discounted vehicle purchasing and leasing, comprehensive health and wellness plans for your family, 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid holidays and time off, referral services for childcare, schools, and adoption support, tax‑advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA), and relocation assistance where applicable.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.