Identity Shield & Consumer Fraud - Shield (Backend)

General information

Career area Technology Work Location(s) 601 S. Tryon Street, NC Remote? No Ref # 21748 Posted Date 02-20-26 Working time Full time

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

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

Join Ally's Identity Shield and Consumer Fraud team to build authentication and identity infrastructure that protects our digital banking customers and enables intelligent fraud prevention. You'll develop systems that implement fine-grained access control, manage authentication and authorization flows across Ally's digital banking ecosystem, and generate the behavioral and contextual signals that power adaptive fraud detection.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The Work Itself

As a backend engineer on this team, you'll tackle fascinating challenges implementing identity protocols at scale—building OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows, developing authorization engines that evaluate complex policies with millisecond latency, and serving authentication decisions that directly impact our ability to keep customers safe and prevent fraud. You'll work with modern cloud technologies to build resilient, scalable platforms where performance and reliability are non-negotiable. This is your opportunity to shape Ally's next-generation identity and authentication infrastructure, mastering security-first design principles, distributed systems, serve