AI Senior Software Engineer .
Ally and Your Career
The Opportunity
The Work Itself
- Build AI-native platform capabilities on AWS
- Design event-driven services for bursty, variable workloads
- Pair with internal engineers on architecture and design reviews
- Shape day-to-day team practices around agentic coding tools
- Produce reusable patterns and components other teams adopt
- Collaborates with other developers and provides significant contributions to develop specifications to resolve business client questions, problems, and to address enhancement needs.
- Uses technical knowledge, creativity and company practices and priorities to obtain solutions to complex problems.
- Interfaces with senior management to provide and obtain information and to build consensus regarding project direction.
- Interacts directly with business clients.
- Serves as a mentor to lower-level developers.
The Skills You Bring
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Software Engineering, in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent.
- 4+ years of software development experience, including hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent agentic coding platforms).
- Experience using agentic coding tools. Production use of Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, or equivalent. Comfortable with MCP servers, context strategy, and prompt/workflow design.
- Proficiency across all phases of an AI-augmented SDLC — including AI-assisted design, prompt-driven code generation, automated testing, and AI-accelerated debugging and implementation.
- Experience writing and reviewing software design specifications, with the ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate requirements generation, documentation, and solution elaboration.
- Ability to rapidly scope, prototype, and validate working software using AI-accelerated development patterns (Scope → Build → Show).
- Ability to translate business context and organizational intelligence into well-structured AI prompts, user stories, and technical requirements.
- Comfortable acting as a technical authority who can guide teams on responsible and effective use of AI coding tools and agentic workflows.
- Knowledge of standard change management tools and processes, including AI-assisted documentation and automated deployment pipelines.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment, including pairing with AI agents and contributing to shared AI-driven codebases.
- Advanced hands-on experience applying AI tools to real-world engineering problems, with demonstrated ability to ship working software faster through AI augmentation.
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.