Sr. Principal Engineer

Overview

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.

with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company—delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible.

This position is based in Plano, TX.

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

• 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, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product 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 software development with a solid technical foundation and relevant experience in Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST API, real‑time streaming architectures, microservices architecture patterns
• Demonstrated experience in developing scalable applications and platforms
• Experience leading, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to foster their professional growth and development
• Deep expertise in software engineering frameworks with experience in designing and implementing cloud‑native business technology solutions
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations, and GenAI powered SDLC
• Proven track record of delivering scalable cloud‑native solutions addressing cross‑cutting concerns like logging, application testing, application security and instrumentation by utilizing programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and a variety of AWS tools and services
• Strong communication skills with the ability to move seamlessly between conversing with engineers or frontline ops employees and leading presentations with non‑technical stakeholders
• A passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code
• Added bonus if you have a Master's degree in computer science
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and developing software applications leveraging GenAI capabilities
• Demonstrated experience with horizontal platforms or related services and technologies
• Good experience architecting large‑scale, mission‑critical, cloud‑native applications for enterprises
• Experience with distributed database systems (Cassandra, Elastic Search)
• Experience with deploying clustered web services
• Experience working with…