Sr Principal Engineer

Toyota North America

4.2

(18)

Plano, TX

Why you should apply for a job to Toyota North America:

  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.3/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 69% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Women Influencing and Impacting Toyota (WIIT) employee resource group, with 14 chapters across North America,
  • SuccessShare, a sponsorship program designed to prepare the next generation of women leaders at Toyota.
  • Toyota paid maternity leave provides up to six to eight weeks of 100% paid leave, depending on method of delivery.
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    Position summary

    e 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.

    To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.

    This position is based in Plano, TX, with a hybrid mix of some in-office time and some remote work.

    Who We're Looking For

    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 experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

    The Banking and Commercial Lending team is seeking a highly motivated person to fill an opening as a Sr. Principal - Software Engineering, to help our growing needs.

    What You'll be Doing

    • You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Sr. Principal Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

    • You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for TFS Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

    • Sr. Principal Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

    • In this role, you will be supporting the Banking and Commercial Lending organization. You will lead development and implementation that will enable these business initiatives, working with other leaders and teams across the enterprise to enable these solutions.

    Key responsibilities:

    • 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

    What You Bring

    • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

    • Proven experience in software development with a solid technical foundation with relevant experience in Java, Springboot, 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 software engineering.

    • Proven track record of delivering scalable cloud native solutions addressing cross cutting concerns like logging, application testing and 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

    • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering

    • Experience with coding and software development (Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript)

    • Experience with Amazon Web Services

    • 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, ElasticSearch)

    • Experience with deploying clustered web services

    • Experience working with event-driven and microservice architecture.

    What We'll 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

    • Vehicle purchase & lease programs

    • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family

    • Flextime and virtual work options (if applicable)

    • 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

    • Flexible spending accounts

    • Relocation assistance (if applicable)

    Belonging at Toyota

    Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse 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. As a company that has been one of DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity and a member of The Billion Dollar Roundtable supporting minority and woman-owned suppliers for over 10 years, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business.

    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.

    Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to [email protected].

    Why you should apply for a job to Toyota North America:

  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.3/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 69% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Women Influencing and Impacting Toyota (WIIT) employee resource group, with 14 chapters across North America,
  • SuccessShare, a sponsorship program designed to prepare the next generation of women leaders at Toyota.
  • Toyota paid maternity leave provides up to six to eight weeks of 100% paid leave, depending on method of delivery.