Sr Engineer - AI

Ally - Detroit, MI

Hiring: Sr Engineer - AI Company: Ally Location: Detroit, MI Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:40:13 Employment Type: Part-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD, Change Management, Confluence, Dynatrace, Java, JavaScript, Jira, Kotlin, Python, REST, TypeScript About the job Experience: •3+ years of relevant experience •4+ years of professional software development; strong in at least two of: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java/Kotlin. Required Skills: •This is not a role for someone who wants to prompt-tune existing tools. You will be writing and owning code that runs in production, integrating with Jira, Confluence, Dynatrace, and internal systems, and solving the hard problems that come after the demo works. •At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. •Agent and knowledge core development •Extend the agent manifest with new specialist agent types (define capability, constraints, tool access, handoff protocol) •Maintain and evolve the behavioral rules, discovery guide, and coding standards that all agents inherit •Build the memory and context-passing infrastructure that makes agents coherent across multi-step tasks •Carry high-scoring PoCs (test automation, vulnerability management, architecture agents, risk review automation) from working demo to production-ready service •Add the reliability layer each PoC currently lacks: retries, circuit breakers, health endpoints, SLO instrumentation, runbooks Qualifications: •The Qualifications We’re Looking For 3+ years of relevant experience •Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent •Production experience building systems that call external APIs — REST, auth patterns, error handling, retry logic. •Demonstrated ability to read an unfamiliar codebase quickly and extend it without breaking what exists. •Strong written communication — your code, commit messages, and Confluence documentation are read by humans and agents alike. •Applied hands-on capability in the Anthropic Claude API or Claude Code (tool use, agentic loops, multi-step tasks). •Operational familiarity with Confluence and Jira REST APIs (Cloud or on-prem). •SRE or platform engineering background: SLOs, observability instrumentation, production readiness gates. •Financial services experience or comfort operating under strict change management and security controls. •You May Be a Great Fit If Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!