Principal Software Engineer

General information

Career area

Technology

Work Location(s)500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NCRemote?

No

Ref #21551

Posted Date
01-28-26

Working time

Full time

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?

Work Schedule:

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

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.

• Work closely with technical and business partners to understand and translate technical requirements into technical specifications for delivering new features and capabilities
• Design and implement clean, quality, and testable applications that supports rapid delivery
• Deploy cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as code, as well as build/maintain CI/CD pipelines making updates as required.
• Find creative and innovative approaches to complex problems while working, learning, and collaborating in a cross‑functional agile team.
• Be passionate and continue to advance software craftsmanship within Ally
• Size/estimate user stories/tasks and assist in the development of a continuous release strategy.
• Contribute to technical documentation and specifications, as required.
• Contribute/ lead code reviews.

• 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 Git Lab
• AI/ML experience/certification is a plus.
• Experience with Apigee is a plus.

#LI-Hybrid

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…