Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend for its Plano, TX location. The ideal candidate will possess extensive backend expertise, strong full-stack instincts, and technical leadership skills to drive architectural decisions and improve engineering practices within the organization
Job Summary
Serve as the technical authority for backend and platform architecture, 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.
Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Product, and Front-End Engineering to shape roadmaps and ensure technical feasibility.
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Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend for its Plano, TX location. The ideal candidate will possess extensive backend expertise, strong full-stack instincts, and technical leadership skills to drive architectural decisions and improve engineering practices within the organization.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Serverless architectures on AWS
TypeScript and/or Python backend services
RESTful and GraphQL APIs
Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)
Observability and monitoring tooling
Security best practices
Debugging distributed systems
Nice-to-have
Financial services industry experience
Multi-account AWS architectures
Data streaming patterns
GenAI integration
CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
GraphQL federation
AWS certifications
Key Requirements
7+ years of software engineering experience
Principal or staff engineer level experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience