Senior Lead Software Engineer Backend

Overview

Who we are

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Who were looking for

At TFS were building next-generation products that redefine mobility for millions of customers worldwide. Were looking for a Sr Lead Engineer Backend. An individual contributor at the principal level who brings deep backend expertise strong full-stack instincts and the technical leadership to raise the bar across the entire engineering organization.

This isnt a management role. Its for the engineer who is the go-to person in the room: the one who shapes architecture mentors peers without being asked digs into the hardest problems and leaves every system better than they found it. Youll work across teams influence technical direction and be a force multiplier for everyone around you.

This position is based in Plano TX. The selected candidate will be expected to reside within a commutable distance of this location.

• Serve as the technical authority for backend and platform architecture across one or more product domains making high-impact decisions on patterns tooling and standards
• Design build and maintain full-stack features from APIs and serverless services to the data models and event-driven workflows that power them
• Lead technical design reviews architecture discussions and RFC processes driving alignment across engineering teams
• Identify and resolve systemic issues: performance bottlenecks reliability gaps scaling constraints and tech debt that slows teams down
• Own complex debugging and troubleshooting across the full stack from API latency to infrastructure misconfigurations to distributed system failures
• Define and champion engineering best practices: code quality testing strategies observability and deployment safety
• Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers Product and Front-End Engineering to shape roadmaps and ensure technical feasibility
• Mentor and grow engineers at all levels through code reviews pairing design feedback and technical guidance
• Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and helping define what great looks like for backend engineering at TFS
• Proactively communicate technical risks tradeoffs and recommendations to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders

What you bring

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
• 7 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or full-stack focus and a track record of operating at a principal or staff engineer level
• Deep expertise in designing and buildingserverless architectures on AWS including:
  • Lambdafor compute
  • API Gateway(REST and HTTP APIs) for service exposure
  • DynamoDBorAurora Serverlessfor data persistence
  • Step Functionsor other workflow orchestration tools
  • EventBridgeSQS orSNSfor event-driven and async communication
  • S3for object storage and data lake patterns
  • CloudFrontfor API acceleration and edge caching
• Strong proficiency inTypeScriptand/orPythonfor backend services you default to production-quality code and advocate for it across the codebase
• Proven ability to design build and maintainRESTful and GraphQL APIs including API contract design versioning error handling and type-safe tooling (e.g. OpenAPI GraphQL Code Generator tRPC)
• Solid understanding ofInfrastructure as CodeusingAWS CDK CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience withobservability and monitoringtooling: CloudWatch X-Ray Datadog or similar you know how to instrument services trace distributed requests and respond to incidents
• Strong understanding ofsecurity best practices: IAM policies least-privilege access secrets management (Secrets Manager SSM Parameter Store) and data encryption at rest and in transit
• Deep experience debugging complex issues across distributed systems network traces distributed tracing log analysis and profiling
• Experience with testing at all levels: unit integration contract and load testing for distributed systems
• Familiarity withcontainerized workloads(ECS Fargate Docker) for services that dont fit the serverless model
• Strong written and verbal communication you can write a clear RFC lead a design review and explain a complex tradeoff to a non-technical stakeholder

Added bonus if you have

• Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in the financial services banking or insurance industry
• Experience designingmulti-account AWS architectureswith proper governance and guardrails (AWS Organizations Control Tower)
• Familiarity withdata streamingpatterns using Kinesis MSK (Managed Kafka) or similar
• Experience withGenAI integrationon the backend (e.g. Bedrock SageMaker endpoints LLM orchestration patterns)
• Experience withCI/CD pipelinesand deployment automation (CodePipeline GitHub Actions or similar)
• Hands-on experience withGraphQL federationor API gateway patterns for composing multiple services
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Developer Associate or DevOps Engineer)
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
• Experience defining engineering standards writing ADRs or leading org-wide technical initiatives

What well 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)

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. Toyota is proud to have 10 different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members efforts to dream do and grow without questioning that they belong.

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