Job Description

Position Description

As a Senior API Engineer at Ally, you will lead the development and delivery of customer-facing APIs for an Agile team within the Digital organization. You'll need to leverage strong technical acumen, communication and collaboration skills to design, develop and deliver end-to-end solutions, according to industry and company best practices and standards.

Job Responsibilities

* Drive the end-to-end design and development for system components (Services/APIs and applications).
* Role requires 80+% hands on development
* Conduct and enforce development practices such as Design and Code reviews
* Create technical designs (Activity Diagrams/Sequence Diagrams, API service specifications and message models) by working closely with Technology and Business partners.
* Own design alignment to the overall solution and application architecture.
* Review business and non-functional requirements to capture and understand project requirements.
* Provide Technical support during Development, Testing, and Deployment of projects.
* Proactive, regular communications with the Business/Technology partners and Management on status, changes or issues.
* Complete deliverables by defined schedules and requirements.
* Maintain an awareness and understanding of competing products and provide ideas for innovation and improvement
* Comfortable leading developers collaboratively towards the desired technical design
* Provides inputs on estimates for project efforts
* Performs root cause analysis, efficient production support and maintenance/enhancements for existing applications

Qualifications

* Senior API Developer of Digital applications, using integrations with REST APIs in both Cloud and Containerized environments.
* 5+ years of development experience using API programming languages, such as Java, Python, Node.js, .NET, Go, etc in building resilient and high-performance customer facing applications
* Demonstrated Expertise in:
* API Gateways & API Management Tools, specifically Apigee
* Enterprise Design Patterns
* Cloud Services, including AWS
* Serverless and Container technologies and implementations
* Version Control branching strategies and best practices (Bitbucket, GIT)
* REST Service Design and Development
* Performance engineering/tuning
* Security Patterns for Digital channels (oAuth, JWT, OWASP)
* Distributed caching
* Queuing technology
* Extensive experience designing SOA services (SOAP & REST) and middleware integration for large distributed enterprise applications.

Ally Overview

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a leading digital financial services company and a top 25 U.S. financial holding company offering financial products for consumers, businesses, automotive dealers and corporate clients. Ally's legacy dates back to 1919, and the company was redesigned in 2009 with a distinctive brand, innovative approach and relentless focus on its customers. Ally has an award-winning online bank (member FDIC), one of the largest full service auto finance operations in the country, a complementary auto-focused insurance business, a growing digital wealth management and online brokerage platform, and a trusted corporate finance business offering capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

Total Rewards

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: benefits to help you plan for the near and long term including 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 family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility support as well as benefits that help you take care of your family -- parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Ally is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We extend equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's 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.