[Hiring] AI First Software Engineer @OPENLANE

Role Description

We’re hiring AI-first 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.

• Work on customer-facing marketplace experiences and core platform services.
• Partner closely with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems.
• AI is an accelerator; engineering ownership still matters.

Qualifications

• 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).
• 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.

Requirements

• AI-forward: You already use AI tools to enhance development speed, quality, and efficiency, and you continuously adapt as tooling evolves.
• Product-minded: You think beyond code and understand how technical decisions impact customers and business outcomes.
• Ownership-driven: You take responsibility for systems end-to-end, including reliability and operational health.
• Technically curious: You enjoy learning new technologies and thoughtfully evaluating emerging approaches.
• Quality-focused: You value clean, maintainable code, strong testing practices, and production-ready engineering standards.

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.

Compensation

Compensation Range of Annual Salary: $90,000.00 - $130,000.00 CAD (Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)