Sr. Software Engineer (AI First)
About The Position
At OPENLANE, we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful. We’re a technology company building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles. We’re a data company helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use. And we’re an innovation company accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We’re hiring AI-first Sr. Software Engineers to build, evolve, and scale OPENLANE’s U.S. marketplace platforms. These roles are for engineers who already treat AI as a first-class development tool, not a novelty. You’ll use AI to move faster, ship higher-quality software, and reduce operational and development toil, while still applying strong engineering judgment, ownership, and systems thinking. You’ll work on customer-facing marketplace experiences and core platform services, partnering closely with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems. AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.
Requirements
- 5+ 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)
- Experience building and supporting production software systems
- 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
Senior
