Principal React Native Developer

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

We are seeking a Principal React Native Developer to contribute to the evolution and scalability of our mobile platform. In this role, you will help define best practices, drive platform improvements, and enable product teams to build React Native experiences efficiently and reliably.

You will be a hands-on contributor to platform design, modularization, and shared infrastructure while collaborating closely with other senior engineers to shape the mobile strategy.

The Work Itself

Platform Development & Strategy

• Contribute to the design, evolution, and modularization of the React Native mobile platform
• Implement and maintain core platform features, shared components, SDK integrations, and app fundamentals (startup, navigation, networking, etc.)
• Collaborate with senior engineers to inform platform direction, architecture decisions, and adoption of modern React Native capabilities (TurboModules, Fabric, ExpoModules etc)
• Ensure consistency, performance, and maintainability across the app and shared platform modules

Cross-Team Enablement

• Support product teams in leveraging the platform to deliver features faster and more reliably
• Build reusable modules, design system components, and developer tooling to improve cross-team productivity

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• Provide guidance on platform best practices, coding standards, and React Native pattern
• Act as a technical resource for debugging complex issues and optimizing app performance

Engineering Excellence

• Write high-quality, production-ready code that balances maintainability, performance, and scalability
• Contribute to testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes for the platform
• Mentor engineers on platform usage, patterns, and best practices

The Skills You Bring

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Highly preferred: 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Highly preferred: 3+ years working with React Native in production environments
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern React patterns

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• Experience with native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java) development
• Experience building reusable, modular components and shared platforms for mobile apps
• Comfortable contributing to architectural discussions and platform decision
• Familiarity with React Native New Architecture (TurboModules, Fabric)
• Experience with Expo preferred
• Experience with modularization strategies in large mobile apps
• CI/CD and release automation for mobile apps
• Performance optimization and observability in mobile apps
• Experience supporting multiple product teams via shared mobile infrastructure
• Strong collaborator and contributor in platform strategy
• Systems thinker with attention to maintainability and scalability
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Clear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ownership over platform quality and developer experience

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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: $110000 - $180000 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.