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Ally Principal React Native Developer - Platform in Raleigh, North Carolina
General information
Ref # 21751
Remote? No
Ally and Your Career
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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?
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
- 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
- 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
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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: plan for the near and long term with 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 your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially. * Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts. * Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
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.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@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:
An individual's position in the range is determined by 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.
Emerging: 110000
Experienced: 145000
Expert: 180000
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan