[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 mindset; already uses AI tools to enhance development speed, quality, and efficiency.
• Product-minded; thinks beyond code and understands how technical decisions impact customers and business outcomes.
• Ownership-driven; takes responsibility for systems end-to-end, including reliability and operational health.
• Technically curious; enjoys learning new technologies and thoughtfully evaluating emerging approaches.
• Quality-focused; values 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.

Company Description

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.

• Driven Waybuilders: We pursue challenges that inspire us to build, create, and innovate.
• Relentless Curiosity: We seek to understand and improve our customers’ experience.
• Smart Risk-Taking: We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.
• Fearless Ownership: We deliver what we promise and learn along the way.