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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Manager of Software Engineering - **Company:** Toyota Motor North America - **Location:** Plano, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Software Quality, Distributed Systems, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Web Platforms, Cloud Platform System, Spring Cloud, Spring-boot, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Amazon Bedrock, AWS Fargate, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Splunk, Dynatrace, Microservices - **Published:** October 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3154c9db-7878-4aef-91cf-bcdd8f80df24 ## About the Role 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., * 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. ## Description * 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.