Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Software Engineer will help migrate SmartCash, Ally Financial’s dealer money movement and wholesale settlement platform, to AWS while maintaining a production platform that processes approximately $500 million per day in ACH transactions across Ally’s national auto dealer network. The platform operates seven days a week under strict daily processing windows and has no tolerance for failure. The migration program’s architecture and proof-of-concept work are complete, and the team is moving into execution. The role spans cloud infrastructure, Java application development, database migration, batch processing, and feature development. Responsibilities include migrating application and data tiers to AWS; re-platforming Spring Batch jobs from OpenShift to AWS Batch on ECS Fargate; moving WebLogic and JBoss applications to ECS Fargate containers; migrating Oracle 19c to Aurora PostgreSQL; archiving data to S3 Glacier; and deploying a React SPA to S3 with CloudFront. Infrastructure is managed with Terraform through Ally’s PCE GitLab pipeline. The engineer will maintain and extend nightly weekday Spring Batch processes that generate ACH files, GL extracts, retail and wholesale feeds, and CBA reports; respond to incidents; and eventually move these jobs to AWS Batch without disrupting production. The engineer will also contribute to ongoing product features and use generative AI tools as a standard development instrument.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- At least 3 years of production Java development experience; Java 17 or 21.
- Experience with Spring Boot and Spring Batch, including job partitioning, restartability, step chaining, and failure handling.
- Familiarity with Java EE patterns such as EJB, container-managed transactions, and JNDI, and experience migrating away from legacy JEE frameworks.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and operating behind an enterprise API gateway.
- Experience with microservice architecture.
- Production experience with ECS Fargate, AWS Batch, EventBridge, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, and RDS/Aurora.
- Working knowledge of VPC networking, IAM roles, and OIDC-based authentication.
- Proficiency in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL sufficient to read, analyze, and convert legacy packages.
- Working knowledge of Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrated active use of generative AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
Nice To Haves
- IMDS-based identity patterns preferred over static credentials.
- Familiarity with ECR, S3, and CloudFront.
- Terraform authorship in a multi-region environment using a module-based structure.
- Experience with a corporate CI/CD pipeline framework and state management conventions.
- Experience applying AI tools to practical engineering work, including legacy code analysis and refactoring, automated documentation, test generation, schema conversion, and code review.
Responsibilities
- Migrate the SmartCash application and data tiers to AWS.
- Re-platform Spring Batch jobs from OpenShift to AWS Batch on ECS Fargate.
- Migrate WebLogic and JBoss online applications to ECS Fargate containers.
- Migrate the Oracle 19c database to Aurora PostgreSQL and convert Oracle PL/SQL packages, procedures, and sequences to PostgreSQL-compatible equivalents.
- Archive data to S3 Glacier and deploy the React SPA to S3 with CloudFront distribution.
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform through the Ally PCE GitLab pipeline.
- Maintain and extend the Spring Batch processing chain that generates ACH files, GL extracts, retail and wholesale feeds, and CBA reports.
- Own incident response for the batch processing chain and re-platform jobs without interrupting production operations.
- Contribute to new product features alongside migration work.
- Use generative AI tools for engineering tasks including legacy code analysis and refactoring, documentation, test generation, schema conversion, and code review.
Benefits
- Market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives.
- Paid time off starting at 20 days, 11 paid holidays, and 8 hours of annual volunteer time off.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions.
- Student loan pay-down and 529 education savings assistance programs.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Employee, spouse, and child life insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions and Healthcare FSA.
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance.
- Total well-being program.
- Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility assistance.
- Paid parental and caregiver leave.
- Dependent Day Care FSA, backup child and adult/elder care days, and childcare discounts.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.
- Depending on the role, possible travel allowances, relocation assistance, signing bonus, and/or equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
