Software Engineer

Ally Financial is hiring a hands-on Software Engineer to design, build, test, deploy, support, and continuously improve applications within its Audit and Risk technology portfolio. The role combines full-stack feature development with API work, database enhancements, enterprise integrations, and day-to-day production support.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, test, debug, implement, and support software solutions that deliver business value and improve operational efficiency.
• Build full-stack features using TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js/Express, SQL, and Python.
• Develop and enhance RESTful APIs, including controllers, middleware, service layers, route handlers, and secure authentication and authorization.
• Implement database enhancements such as schema changes, migrations, indexing strategies, seed data, and query optimization.
• Integrate Ally applications with enterprise and third-party platforms, including Snowflake, Salesforce, and other business-critical systems.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support DevOps and CI/CD practices to enable reliable deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Maintain software quality through unit testing, automated testing, code reviews, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Assist with system integration testing and user acceptance testing by analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving defects.
• Support production readiness activities including deployments, changes, service account maintenance, documentation updates, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.
• Troubleshoot application and user issues, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate with infrastructure, database, security, network, cloud/platform, and identity and access management teams to resolve issues.
• Review security findings, vulnerability assessments, and penetration-test results, and help with remediation based on technology risk and compliance requirements.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, support runbooks, support guides, and knowledge base articles.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Participate in innovation activities such as proof-of-concepts and hackathons, along with continuous improvement efforts.
• Work primarily occurs during business hours, with scheduled after-hours support when required for production deployments, maintenance, or critical support events.

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, support, and maintenance.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and experience building applications using React (or a comparable modern front-end framework).
• REST API development/support experience with Node.js/Express (or similar), including controllers, middleware, service layers, and authentication integration.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and scripting languages such as Python for application development and data processing.
• Experience with source control, testing, debugging, secure coding practices, code reviews, and modern software delivery practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot application issues and support production systems through standard change, release, and support processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to create technical documentation and communicate with engineering and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a collaborative Agile team environment and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Independently handle well-defined assignments while partnering with senior engineers and technical leads on complex initiatives.
• High school Diploma or GED equivalent.

Beneficial experience

• Experience supporting applications used by Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Controls, or other regulated business functions.
• Experience with AWS, including services such as ECS Fargate, Aurora, RDS Proxy, API Gateway, IAM, Secrets Manager, or S3.
• Experience supporting, configuring, integrating, or enhancing vendor-provided enterprise applications.
• Salesforce administration, configuration, or support experience (preferred).
• Apex development is not required.

Compensation and incentives

• Base pay range: USD 65,000 - 115,000 per year.
• Position placement within the range depends on role scope, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications; Ally also reviews internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment.
• This role is eligible to participate in Ally’s annual incentive plan.
• Market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals.

Benefits

• 20 paid time off days (program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays) plus 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly.
• 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions.
• Student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance, tuition reimbursement, and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Financial learning center and financial coach access.
• 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 and Healthcare FSA.
• Critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance; total well-being program.
• Adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance; paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized Weight Watchers® program, and other employee discounts.
• May be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity depending on the role.

Schedule and location

• Location: Charlotte, NC in-office (onsite).
• Ally designates roles as fully on-site, hybrid, or fully remote; hybrid expectations can be set by the hiring manager, and work requirements may change based on business need.

Additional note on employment authorization

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