Sr. Software Engineer
About The Position
OPENLANE is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and develop scalable, cloud-native APIs for a greenfield project replacing a legacy system. The role offers opportunities to apply experience in application development, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and performance tuning while contributing to real-time, high-value marketplace systems and a major platform modernization and AI transformation. The engineer will use AI development tools as part of day-to-day development, collaborate with engineering, product, and platform teams, and take responsibility for systems from design through reliability and operational health. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; OPENLANE will not provide visa sponsorship.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and supporting production software systems.
- Strong understanding of software principles, object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript for Node.js runtime or browsers.
- Experience with service API development, GraphQL, and REST/JSON.
- React experience.
- Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, and writing SQL outside an ORM.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, agile development processes, and pipelines.
- Strong Git skills, including branching, merging, resolving conflicts, and reverts.
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing.
- Actively uses AI development tools such as code copilots, AI debuggers, or test generators; is curious about applying AI to real customer and business problems; and can critically evaluate AI outputs.
- A university degree or advanced diploma in a software engineering-related discipline, preferably Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.
- Values a design-first approach, ongoing learning, maintainable code, strong testing, and production-ready engineering standards.
Nice To Haves
- Vite
- Material UI
- Kubernetes or containerization
- PHP
- Vue.js
Responsibilities
- Design and develop a new system to replace a legacy system.
- Build and support production software systems, including scalable APIs.
- Contribute to application development, front-end development, and performance tuning.
- Take end-to-end ownership of systems, including reliability and operational health.
- Use and critically evaluate AI development tools in software development.
- Collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and platform teams.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions and FSA options in the United States
- Immediately vested 401(k) with company match in the United States, or RRSP with company match in Canada
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick time
- Paid maternity and paternity leave in the United States
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D in the United States
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer-paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer
- Tuition reimbursement for eligible programs
- Opportunities to expand skills and share knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization
- Internal promotions, diverse career paths, and meaningful advancement opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
