AI First Sr. Android Developer

## AI First Sr. Android Developer Apply:
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* Who We Are:

** 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.…