Platform Developer - AI

General information Ref #22449 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 At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech You will be the engineer who makes the agent ecosystem stable, reusable, and scalable. Where Senior Developers build agents and features, you build the platform those agents run on — the shared tooling, the deployment patterns, the REST API infrastructure, the script libraries, and the automation that reduces friction across every team in the Lightspeed and Logos programs. You sit at the intersection of AI and platform engineering. You care about what happens after the demo: How does this agent get deployed? How does the script that hits the Confluence API get maintained when the auth pattern changes? How do we run 20 Python automation scripts without them diverging? You answer those questions by building the right foundations, not by writing the same fix 20 times. At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. The Work Itself Agent runtime and tooling infrastructure Own the shared Python script library that underpins Confluence, Jira, and Dynatrace integrations — auth patterns, SSL context management, REST helpers, error handling conventions Build and maintain the scaffolding that new agent types are generated from (session startup, context loading, tool access patterns, output schemas) Standardize how agents write, read, and manage files in C:/Temp/ and persistent storage — naming conventions, JSON schemas, lifecycle management Deployment and CI/CD for AI workloads Build the CI pipeline integrations that execute agent-driven gates (coverage, vulnerability, SRE readiness) as blocking checks before merge Implement the exit-code conventions and JSON report schemas that gate scripts emit, so CI can act on them reliably Own the environment and dependency management for the Python agent scripts: pinned versions, packaging, distribution to developer machines and CI runners API and integration platform Maintain and evolve the REST API patterns for Confluence Cloud (Basic auth, Cloud HTML sanitization rules, version conflict handling) and on-prem Jira (Bearer PAT, CA cert, pagination) Build reusable integration modules that any agent or script can import rather than re-implement Extend MCP server configurations as new tool needs are identified; manage settings and permission profiles across the Claude Code harness Developer experience Reduce the friction for teams onboarding to the Lightspeed framework — templates, init scripts, documentation, and the CLAUDE.md / knowledge core content that makes new agents immediately productive Build the tooling that validates agent behavior against the manifest and behavioral rules before a new agent type ships Own the C:/Temp/ workspace conventions, script naming standards, and output file lifecycle so the pipeline components stay composable The Skills You Bring Minimum Requirements: 3+ years of relevant experience Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent Preferred Requirements: 4+ years in platform, developer tools, or infrastructure engineering Strong Python — you write clean, reusable library code, not just scripts Experience owning shared tooling or internal SDKs used by other developers Solid understanding of REST API patterns: auth, pagination, error handling, retries, versioning Strongly preferred Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) with custom gates and quality checks Familiarity with the Anthropic Claude API, Claude Code, or MCP server configuration Experience with Confluence or Jira REST APIs — both Cloud and on-prem variants are a plus Python packaging, dependency management (Poetry or pip with pinned requirements), and distribution to mixed environments Comfort reading and writing JSON schema definitions and designing file-based data contracts between pipeline components What sets the best candidates apart You think in contracts and seams: you define what a platform component promises to callers before writing a line of implementation You have maintained shared tooling at scale and understand the cost of breaking changes in internal libraries You find the repeated pattern across five different scripts and extract the right abstraction — not too early, not too late You have shipped developer tooling that other engineers actually used and appreciated 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: Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting. 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 and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs. Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions 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 support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts. Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs. 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 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 View email address on click.appcast.io. 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr Ally