[Hiring] Senior Android Developer @OPENLANE

Role Description

We’re hiring AI-first Sr. Software Engineer (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.

• Work on customer-facing wholesale marketplace apps spanning seller and buyer experiences.
• Partner closely with Product, iOS, backend, and platform teams.
• AI is an accelerator; engineering ownership still matters.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional Android development (or equivalent depth).
• Proficiency in Kotlin.
• Experience developing and shipping Android apps to the Play Store.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex features and cross-cutting concerns.
• AI-first mindset and daily 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 building and operating production mobile applications at scale.
• Strong fundamentals: architecture, concurrency, networking, offline/edge cases, and app performance.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, code review, and production observability (crash reporting, analytics, release health).
• End-to-end ownership of features from design collaboration through release and follow-up.
• 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 for modern Android (Compose + Material 3 preferred; XML/Fragments/ViewBinding still present in mature codebases).
• Multi-module Android apps (app / feature / capability / core patterns).
• Dependency injection (e.g. Hilt), coroutines, StateFlow / unidirectional UI, navigation, WorkManager.
• Networking and persistence (e.g. Retrofit/OkHttp, Room).
• Feature flags and experimentation; product analytics; crash reporting.
• Camera / media / device capabilities (e.g. scanning workflows).

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.