Sr. Engineer - Software Engineering

General information

Ref # 20954

Remote? No

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

As part of Ally's rapidly growing Bank, Invest, Lending and Digital Technologies (BILD) team, you will be responsible for building APIs and software components for our Account Opening line-of-business. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an agile development team that will implement our vision of a modern API and omni-channel Digital Account Opening platform, to accelerate product development and evolution of our account opening capabilities.

As part of this, you will implement reusable application frameworks, components and constructs that will accelerate delivery of our top project initiatives. Additionally, as an engineer in this dynamic team, you will seek to continuously enhance and streamline developer experiences with tools and automation controls that will accelerate speed-to-market and improve the quality of software. You will use your technical expertise, industry knowledge and passion for continuous learning to help shape the roadmap for platform modernization, reduce operational overhead and enable Ally to offer best-in-class customer experiences.

On this team, we make relentless progress to deliver on our commitments. We support each other, strive to foster a culture where each team member is valued, and can bring their best to work. Our #1 goal is to be successful as a team and our people are above all else.

The Work Itself

• Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story elaboration, design, development, testing and implementation of software application and infrastructure-as-code.
• Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing
• Develop high-quality, reusable, and scalable code using Nodejs, React.js and React Native.
• Collaborating with other team engineers and technical leads as necessary
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Leading a culture of innovation and experimentation, engaging in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and taking calculated risks that push the envelope.
• Actively studying new and emerging technologies, rapidly prototype and carrying out POCs
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Maintaining documentation, coding standards, and style guides
• Optimizing application performance, quality, and delivery to defined organizational standards and best practices
• Managing your own time, and working well both independently and as part of a team
• Influencing team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo
• Serving as a mentor for junior and new engineers and peers in the software development practice to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers

The Skills You Bring

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position

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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. But Ally's total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including :

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.

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@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.

Base Pay Range :

An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

Emerging : 85000

Experienced : 117500

Expert : 150000

Incentive Compensation : This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan