Lead/Principal Software Engineer (AWS,...

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Plano, TX, United States
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Automation of Tests Software Quality Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Persistent Data Structure Software Design Patterns Document Management Systems Amazon DynamoDB
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Machine Learning Team Foundation Server Software Engineering Software Factory Strategies of Testing Backup and Restore Backend Data Lakes Information Technology Deployment Automation Apache Kafka Asynchronous Programming Api Gateway Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Serverless Computing

Job description

As a Lead Engineer, you will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects and other tech leads to understand requirements, design innovative solutions, and guide a squad of engineers in delivering high-quality, functional application code.

What you’ll be doing

The Lead Software Engineer has a pivotal role within a software factory. They must leverage their technical expertise to drive innovation and deliver impactful business outcomes. Additionally, they should possess strong collaboration skills to work with other technologists, lead development of independent components and sub-groups within the factory.

  • Collaborate with agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions

  • Collaborate with product and cross-functional partner teams to ensure alignment in priorities and timelines

  • Lead the design and architecture of new and existing platform level features (design patterns, reliability, scaling, backup & restore)

  • Proactively communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders

  • Define and champion engineering and operational excellence: code quality, testing strategies, observability, and deployment safety

  • Promote a culture of inclusive environment where the ideas of other tech leads can be heard and championed.

  • Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for TFS, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Requirements

The TFS Enterprise Document Management Platform team is seeking a highly motivated person to fill an opening as a Lead Software Engineer role to help our growing Enterprise needs. The Lead Software Engineer will build on their passion for software engineering and combine with skills for operational excellence to build solutions to scale industry best practices and design patterns., + Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, orequivalentexperience

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or full-stack focus anda track recordof operating at a principal engineer level

  • Proven ability to design, build, andmaintain RESTful APIs , including API contract design,versioningand error handling

  • Deepexpertisein designing and building AWS architectures, including serverless, containerized, and event-driven solutions:

  • EC2, ECS,Lambda, Step functionsfor computeand workflow

  • API Gateway(REST and HTTP APIs) for service exposure

  • DynamoDB/ Document DB for data persistence

  • EventBridge,SQS, orSNS, MSKfor event-driven communication

  • S3for object storage and data lake patterns

  • CloudFrontfor API acceleration and edge caching

  • OpenSearch for advanced search and analytics

  • Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and brokers like Kafka.

  • Skilled at troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues quickly and efficiently.

  • Proficiencyin setting up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, incorporating automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment strategies.

  • Experience building observable systems to track the performance of distributed services, trace issues, and troubleshoot failures.

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with product managers,architectsand other engineers to define technical requirements.

Added bonus if you have

  • Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or OpenTofu.

  • Proficiency in Bedrock Data Automation, AWS Textract, Transcribe and other AI/ML solutions, evaluation frameworks

  • Proficiency in customization of CI/CD workflows and managing multiple environments.

Benefits & conditions

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)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star.

About the company

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As 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. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

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 (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, ‘job flexibility benefits’ [also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability], etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

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