National Manager - Software Engineering

Software Engineering Manager - Backend

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world's most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We're looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

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 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.

We're building next-generation products that redefine mobility for millions of customers worldwide. We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager - Backend with deep full-stack and backend expertise to lead a high-performing team delivering scalable, resilient systems on AWS. This role is for someone who thinks in systems — someone who can design serverless architectures, drive API strategy, mentor engineers to do their best work, and partner closely with Product and Front-End Engineering to deliver reliable platforms that power customer-facing experiences.

You'll own the backend and platform engineering strategy for your domain, driving technical decisions while keeping your team moving fast and building with quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and retain a team of full-stack and backend engineers — hiring top talent, running performance reviews, coaching, and creating clear paths for career development
• Own the backend architecture and technical direction for your domain, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability across all services
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards, API design conventions, testing practices, and continuous improvement
• Partner with Product, Design, and Front-End Engineering to define and deliver features from concept to production
• Champion system reliability, observability, and security as first-class engineering concerns
• Establish and enforce best practices around API design, data modeling, event-driven patterns, and serverless architecture on AWS
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and cloud cost management
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels — translating technical complexity into business impact
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on involvement — you're comfortable reviewing PRs, unblocking engineers, and diving into hard problems when needed
• Monitor and improve key system metrics: latency, error rates, availability, and cost efficiency

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or full-stack focus, including 3+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role

Deep expertise in designing and building serverless architectures on AWS, including:

• Lambda for compute
• API Gateway (REST and APIs) for service exposure
• DynamoDB or Aurora Serverless for data persistence
• Step Functions or other workflow orchestration tools
• EventBridge, SQS, or SNS for event-driven and async communication
• S3 for object storage and data lake patterns
• CloudFront for API acceleration and edge caching

Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python for backend services — you can write or review production-quality code and hold your team to the same standard

Proven ability to design RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with a strong grasp of API contract design, versioning, error handling, and type-safe tooling (e.g., OpenAPI, GraphQL Code Generator, tRPC)

Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform

Experience with observability and monitoring tooling: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, or similar — you know how to instrument services and respond to incidents

Strong understanding of security best practices: IAM policies, least-privilege access, secrets management (Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store), and data encryption at rest and in transit

Experience with testing practices: unit testing, integration testing, contract testing, and load testing for distributed systems

Familiarity with containerized workloads (ECS Fargate, Docker) for services that don't fit the serverless model

Excellent communication skills — you can articulate technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Added bonus if you have Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience in the financial services, banking, or insurance industry

Experience designing multi-account AWS architectures with proper governance and guardrails (AWS Organizations, Control Tower)

Familiarity with data streaming patterns using Kinesis, MSK (Managed Kafka), or similar

Experience with GenAI integration on the backend (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker endpoints, LLM orchestration patterns)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar)

Hands-on experience with GraphQL federation or API gateway patterns for composing multiple services

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer Associate, or DevOps Engineer)

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
• 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. 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.

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At Toyota, we don't just have a vision, but a group of talented, dedicated people who work hard every day to turn that vision into reality. Our mission is to build a future where everyone has the freedom to move. We believe that nothing is impossible. We have big dreams and persevere through any obstacles. We work together to create the future of mobility and make the world a better place.

Career Possibilities: Toyota is a place for people who dream big and are determined to make those dreams a reality. We encourage innovation and look for people who will challenge the status quo in order to make the world a better place. We thrive on teamwork and collaboration and know diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are not only the right thing for our people, they are a business imperative. Together, we're empowered to forge our own paths — to be agile, curious and embrace a growth mindset and immerse ourselves in situations to gain new perspectives and to inspire bold, innovative ways of thinking and working. Our success as a company is directly tied to our team members' success, and our collective ability to give back to society through an unwavering commitment to delight our customers and make people's lives better.

If you want to be part of the next-generation of innovations that help keep the world moving, then join us. And let's start our impossible, together.