AI First Android Developer

OPENLANE•Carmel, IN

About The Position

At OPENLANE, we are seeking AI-first Software Engineers for Android development to build, evolve, and scale the company's digital marketplace mobile experiences. 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 applying strong engineering judgment, ownership, and systems thinking. The work involves customer-facing wholesale marketplace applications, requiring close collaboration with Product, Senior Android engineers, iOS, and backend teams. AI serves as an accelerator, and engineering ownership remains paramount.

Requirements

3+ years professional Android development (or equivalent depth).
Proficiency in Kotlin.
Experience shipping at least one production Android app.
AI-first mindset and active use of AI development tools with critical evaluation of outputs.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Core Engineering Skills: Experience shipping production Android features in a team codebase.
Solid Kotlin and modern Android UI skills; willingness to work in a mid-migration codebase.
Comfort with CI, tests, and code review.
Growing end-to-end ownership of features with guidance from Senior engineers.
AI-First Mindset: 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.
Technical Experience: Kotlin; Jetpack Compose and/or XML Views.
Coroutines; basic DI (Hilt); ViewModels / StateFlow-style UI state.
REST networking; local persistence basics.
Familiarity with feature flags and mobile analytics.
Unit testing (e.g. MockK, Turbine) and willingness to grow UI/instrumentation testing.

Nice To Haves

Compose in production.
Exposure to Hilt, Room, WorkManager, or CameraX.
Marketplace / e-commerce mobile experience.
Familiarity with hybrid WebView surfaces.

Responsibilities

Implement Android features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences.
Ship Compose UI with clear state/events; touch legacy XML only as needed with support.
Write unit tests and meet team CI bars (formatting, coverage).
Use AI tools daily to accelerate coding, tests, and debugging, verifying before merge.
Collaborate with Product/design and learn shared platform concerns (flags, analytics, auth) under Senior guidance.
Pair with iOS counterparts on shared product behavior.

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