AI First Software Engineer

Who We Are

At OPENLANE we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.

building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles.

helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use.

accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• Driven Way builders. 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.

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.

You’ll work on customer‑facing marketplace experiences and core platform services, partnering closely with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems.

AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.

• Work on real-time, high-value marketplace systems at scale
• Be part of a major platform modernization and AI transformation
• Use AI as a first‑class development tool—not an experiment
• Collaborate with experienced engineers, product leaders, and platform teams
• Grow in an environment that values learning, ownership, and impact

• 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.

• Experience building and supporting production software systems
• 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

• Backend development (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, .NET, Ruby, or similar)
• Frontend experience (React, Type Script) is a plus
• AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Microservices and event‑driven architectures
• SQL and data‑driven applications

• Design, build, and operate scalable services that power U.S. marketplace workflows such as Buy Now, 45M, Simulcast, and Dealer Block
• Develop APIs and backend services on the modern, cloud‑native, AI‑enabled platform
• Embed AI‑driven capabilities into marketplace features including pricing logic, negotiation flows, and workflow automation
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while applying strong engineering judgment
• Partner with Product to translate business needs into durable, scalable technical solutions
• Participate in on‑call rotations and support live production systems
• Improve system reliability, performance, security, and observability
• Contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and long‑term platform evolution

• AI‑assisted coding and refactoring
• AI‑generated test coverage and…