Principal Software Engineer

General information

Ref # 21551

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

Ally’s model hosting Platform team is looking for an experienced software engineer to design, build and contribute to our AI/ML model hosting platform that enables modeling teams across the organization to host their AI/ML models as APIs in easy, self-serve, safe and performant way. We aim to operate like a startup in an enterprise environment, moving quickly and iteratively working with our partners to get to the best solution. This role is focused on end-to-end Cloud Native Application Development with Python. Proven expertise in developing secure and robust software applications, organizational leadership, collaboration and communication skill is required.

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

The Work Itself

o Work closely with technical and business partners to understand and translate technical requirements into technical specifications for delivering new features and capabilities

o Design and implement clean, quality, and testable applications that supports rapid delivery

o Deploy cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as code, as well as build/maintain CI/CD pipelines making updates as required.

o Find creative and innovative approaches to complex problems while working, learning, and collaborating in a cross-functional agile team.

o Be passionate and continue to advance software craftsmanship within Ally

o Size/estimate user stories/tasks and assist in the development of a continuous release strategy.

o Contribute to technical documentation and specifications, as required.

o Contribute/ lead code reviews.

The Skills You Bring

• At least 5+ years of experience in Python programming including application service development.
• Ability to design and build serverless and stateful systems on AWS, that are scalable and highly available.
• At least 5 years of AWS experience with a variety of services, in priority order but not limited to:
• Lambda, ECS, S3, Dynamo DB, API gateway, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Security Groups.
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with snowflake
• Experience with microservice development patterns.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience/ Working knowledge configuring and deploying CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with version control like GitLab
• AI/ML experience/certification is a plus.
• Experience with Apigee is a plus.

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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:

• 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: 110000

Experienced: 145000

Expert: 180000

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