AI First Software Engineer
About The Position
At OPENLANE, we are seeking AI-first Software Engineers to build, evolve, and scale our U.S. marketplace platforms. These roles are designed for engineers who already leverage AI as a primary development tool. You will utilize AI to enhance development speed, improve software quality, and reduce operational and development toil, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, ownership, and systems thinking. Your work will involve customer-facing marketplace experiences and core platform services, requiring close collaboration with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems. At OPENLANE, AI serves as an accelerator, and engineering ownership remains paramount.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building and supporting production software systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Backend development (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, .NET, Ruby, or similar)
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture
- Comfort working in modern CI/CD environments
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Ability to own features and systems end-to-end
- Actively uses AI development tools (code copilots, AI debuggers, test generators)
- Curious about applying AI to real customer and business problems
- Able to critically evaluate AI outputs instead of blindly accepting them
- Comfortable learning and adapting in a fast-changing tool landscape
Nice To Haves
- Frontend experience (React, TypeScript)
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
- SQL and data-driven applications
- Marketplace, e-commerce, or high-volume transaction systems
- Reliability engineering or SRE experience
- Experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable services that power U.S. marketplace workflows such as Buy Now, 45M, Simulcast, and DealerBlock
- Develop APIs and backend services on the modern, cloud-native, AI-enabled platform
- Embed AI-driven capabilities into marketplace features including pricing logic, negotiation flows, and workflow automation
- Use AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while applying strong engineering judgment
- Partner with Product to translate business needs into durable, scalable technical solutions
- Participate in on-call rotations and support live production systems
- Improve system reliability, performance, security, and observability
- Contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform evolution
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions (US) and FSA options (US)
- Immediately vested 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada) with company match
- Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time
- Paid maternity and paternity leave (US)
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D (US)
- Robust Employee Assistance Program
- Employer paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer
- Tuition Reimbursement for eligible programs
- Opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization
- Company culture of internal promotions, diverse career paths, and meaningful advancement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
