[Hiring] AI First Android Developer @OPENLANE

Role Description

We’re hiring AI-first Software Engineers (Android) to build, evolve, and scale OPENLANE’s digital marketplace mobile experiences. 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 wholesale marketplace apps, partnering closely with Product, Senior Android engineers, iOS, and backend teams. AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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

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