AI First Sr. Android Developer

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.

Our Values:

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 Looking For:
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.

You’ll work on customer-facing wholesale marketplace apps spanning seller and buyer experiences, partnering closely with Product, iOS, backend, and platform teams.

AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.

Why OPENLANE:

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

You Are:

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.

You Bring:
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/View Binding still present in mature codebases)

Multi-module Android apps (app / feature / capability / core patterns)

Dependency injection (e.g. Hilt), coroutines, State Flow / unidirectional UI, navigation, Work Manager

Networking and persistence (e.g. Retrofit/OkHttp, Room)

Feature flags and experimentation; product analytics; crash reporting

Camera / media / device capabilities (e.g. scanning workflows)

You Will:

Design, build, and ship Android features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences

Lead technical direction on Android: multi-module…