Senior Principal Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for the horizontal shared services and platforms.
• 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, GenAI and other technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential.
• Develop patterns for software solutions to enable emerging business initiatives.
• Collaborate with Technical Leaders to drive tech strategy.
• Evangelize Cloud strategy, solutions, and best practices across the enterprise.
• Participate in internal & external technology communities, mentor other members of the engineering community, and occasionally code or evaluate code.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Proven experience in software development with a solid technical foundation with relevant experience in Java, Spring boot, NodeJS, ReactJS, 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 GenAI powered SDLC.
• 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.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• Master of Computer Science.
• Experience with distributed database systems (Cassandra, or ElasticSearch).
• Experience with deploying clustered web services.
• Experience working with event-driven and microservice architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of hands-on software development experience.

Benefits & Perks

• 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).
• Relocation assistance (if applicable).