Principal - Software Engineer

About the role

At Ally, we are seeking a hands-on Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale business automation and AI solutions. This role will identify high-value automation opportunities, architect intelligent workflows, and build secure, scalable platforms that combine software engineering, cloud-native architecture, RPA, APIs, and generative AI to drive measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise automation solutions spanning workflow orchestration, RPA, APIs, event-driven integration, and AI-powered decisioning.
• Design and implement intelligent automation capabilities using large language models, agent-based patterns, document intelligence, and retrieval-augmented solutions where appropriate.
• Partner with business, product, risk, and engineering stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities, define solution approaches, and prioritize use cases based on ROI, feasibility, and speed to value.
• Establish scalable engineering patterns for automation platforms, including reusable services, APIs, observability, resiliency, security controls, and CI/CD practices.
• Guide end-to-end implementation from proof of concept to production, including architecture reviews, code quality, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
• Drive responsible AI and automation practices by incorporating governance, evaluation, security, compliance, and human-in-the-loop controls into production solutions.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and raise the bar on software design, delivery excellence, and measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: 7+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise applications and platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation engineering, workflow orchestration, API development and integration, and cloud-native solution development.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, with particular depth in Python and Java, and solid software design, coding, and integration fundamentals for enterprise-grade applications and services.
• Experience building and integrating AI-enabled solutions, including LLM-based workflows, prompt orchestration, intelligent document and process automation, and practical usage of AI coding tools to accelerate development, code generation, refactoring, and engineering productivity.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and modern architectural patterns including micro-services, serverless, messaging, and event-driven systems.
• Proven ability to establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, and secure software delivery in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain architecture, tradeoffs, and delivery plans to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly Preferred: Experience with enterprise automation platforms such as Robocorp, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or equivalent workflow and orchestration technologies.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, RAG patterns, vector stores, model evaluation, and guardrail strategies for production AI systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, API design and lifecycle management, and platform engineering practices that enable reusable automation capabilities across teams.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar assistants to improve developer velocity, code quality, documentation, testing, and solution prototyping.
• Familiarity with business process optimization, operational analytics, and value measurement to quantify automation and AI outcomes.
• Prior experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 7+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise applications and platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation engineering, workflow orchestration, API development and integration, and cloud-native solution development.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, with particular depth in Python and Java, and solid software design, coding, and integration fundamentals for enterprise-grade applications and services.
• Experience building and integrating AI-enabled solutions, including LLM-based workflows, prompt orchestration, intelligent document and process automation, and practical usage of AI coding tools to accelerate development, code generation, refactoring, and engineering productivity.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and modern architectural patterns including micro-services, serverless, messaging, and event-driven systems.
• Proven ability to establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, and secure software delivery in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain architecture, tradeoffs, and delivery plans to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly Preferred: Experience with enterprise automation platforms such as Robocorp, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or equivalent workflow and orchestration technologies.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, RAG patterns, vector stores, model evaluation, and guardrail strategies for production AI systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, API design and lifecycle management, and platform engineering practices that enable reusable automation capabilities across teams.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar assistants to improve developer velocity, code quality, documentation, testing, and solution prototyping.
• Familiarity with business process optimization, operational analytics, and value measurement to quantify automation and AI outcomes.
• Prior experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries is a plus.

Skills

• Minimum Qualifications: 7+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise applications and platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation engineering, workflow orchestration, API development and integration, and cloud-native solution development.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, with particular depth in Python and Java, and solid software design, coding, and integration fundamentals for enterprise-grade applications and services.
• Experience building and integrating AI-enabled solutions, including LLM-based workflows, prompt orchestration, intelligent document and process automation, and practical usage of AI coding tools to accelerate development, code generation, refactoring, and engineering productivity.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and modern architectural patterns including micro-services, serverless, messaging, and event-driven systems.
• Proven ability to establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, and secure software delivery in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain architecture, tradeoffs, and delivery plans to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly Preferred: Experience with enterprise automation platforms such as Robocorp, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or equivalent workflow and orchestration technologies.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, RAG patterns, vector stores, model evaluation, and guardrail strategies for production AI systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, API design and lifecycle management, and platform engineering practices that enable reusable automation capabilities across teams.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar assistants to improve developer velocity, code quality, documentation, testing, and solution prototyping.
• Familiarity with business process optimization, operational analytics, and value measurement to quantify automation and AI outcomes.
• Prior experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries is a plus.

Benefits

At Ally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and financial security. This includes:

• Time Away: 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly.
• Planning for the Future: industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational savings 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.

Pay

Base Pay Range: $110,000 - $180,000 USD

Schedule

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.