Senior Software Engineer, Mobility

Plano, TX | Hybrid Option

6 Month+ Contract Opportunity

Toyota Connected is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to join our Mobility team. On this team you will solve complex problems and work alongside talented Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Agile Delivery Leads, and Technical Product Owners who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience services. We love people who think big and like to get their hands dirty to help us build exciting initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, reusable, and high-quality production code, even in unfamiliar codebases, frameworks, or languages, to address novel or complex problems.
• Develop, test, and maintain backend services using Node.js and Java.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Produce software requirements specifications and determine their operational feasibility at scale to meet and exceed business requirements.
• Continuously integrate and deliver software components into a fully functional software system while improving the continuous integration process.
• Work with AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Flink, RDS, API Gateway, and SQS.
• Work with IaaS tools such as Terraform.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with Platform engineers and product teams.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines on GitLab.
• Facilitate end-to-end unit and integration testing to ensure code quality
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, debugging, and upgrading of existing systems
• Lead and facilitate team system design, engineering, and architecture in discussion and documentation
• Define engineering velocity and feature tradeoffs
• Lead technical innovation efforts to solve technical/business challenges
• Manage feature vs technical debt prioritization for optimization and engineering efficiencies
• Lead reviews of complex code, ensuring adherence to software development best practices and providing guidance during the merge review process
• Translate research into impactful and high-performing products
• Develop and maintain documentation, best practices, and ethical guidelines for projects
• Provide thoughtful and high-quality feedback on merge requests
• Conduct code and architecture reviews, and ensure high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
• Identify and address complex technical issues in both development and production environments
• Coach more junior Software Engineers through targeted feedback and guidance to improve technical skills, overcome challenges, and achieve specific goals
• Make recommendations to team on resources to stay up to date with industry trends/developments
• Lead projects, including defining project objectives, developing project schedules, preparing cost estimates, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery under direction of Manager/Product Owner

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience writing clean, concise, tested, maintainable code
• Proficiency in Node.js and Java for backend development
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, etc.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
• Experience with databases including SQL (PostgreSQL, etc.) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Understanding of concepts regarding security, privacy, performance, etc.
• Hands on experience applying current best practices and principles in software development
• Experience in observability practices such as logging and tracing
• Experience in leading projects through all phases of the software development lifecycle under direction
• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision making skills
• Ability to apply systems thinking to understand interdependencies and design solutions that achieve results
• Experience working in an Agile software engineering environment
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods
• Experience mentoring, providing technical guidance, and training more junior team members
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks/assignments
• Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders
• Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience effectively communicating complex technical information to stakeholders at all levels in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner to ensure effective collaboration and alignment throughout the project lifecycle
• Values diversity and differences amongst individuals in interactions

Excited about this opportunity, but don't meet 100% of the qualifications? We’d still love for you to apply! Toyota Connected is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where unique experiences are valued and everyone has the opportunity to contribute. You may just be the right candidate for this or other Toyota Connected opportunities.

Location: This position is based in Plano, Texas. Toyota Connected encourages all employees to live within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned work location for Hybrid work. 

What’s in it for you?

• Annual Patent-a-thons and Hackathons to embrace your superior creative thinking ability.
• Free catered lunches when working onsite. We try to keep it healthy, but Fridays are “cheat” days, so you can get your carbs on!
• Two fully stocked Nespresso bars for your coffee and tea fixes.
• No dress code! Come as you are. We know the smart people we hire don’t need to be told what to wear.
• Free covered garage parking to shield your vehicle from those sneaky storms and to protect your buns from the Texas sun.

Who Are We?

Toyota Connected was established in 2016 to infuse the power of big data and cloud intelligence into all aspects of the mobility experience so that driving a Toyota or Lexus is more personal, intuitive, and safe. We create and enable technologies that delight, simplify, and connect the lives of those who use our products. We believe this mobility revolution will empower our customers to use their vehicles in an array of exciting new ways. We support, celebrate, and thrive on the opportunity to provide Mobility for All.
Making a connected life a more human experience takes humans from all walks of life. Toyota Connected celebrates and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces you.

We are committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process by providing reasonable accommodations as necessary for persons with disabilities or those affected by pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. If you need to request an accommodation, please reach out to your Recruiter who will connect you with an HR Business Partner to discuss your requested accommodation. We only share the candidate information obtained through this process as necessary to fulfill our reasonable accommodation obligations and strive to create an unbiased and equitable experience for all.