General information

Career area

Technology

Work Location(s)

500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NC

Remote?

Ref #

22449

Posted Date

06-24-26

Working time

Full time

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?

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.

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. 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 and management level).
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 pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
Supporting your Health & Well-being: 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, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, 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 assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf

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.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@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: $85000 - $150000 USD

An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, 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.

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

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