AI First Android Developer

## AI First Android Developer Apply:
Remote:
Remote, Canada:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R-255102
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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 Software Engineers (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, partnering closely with Product, Senior Android engineers, iOS, and backend teams.

AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.
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** 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 shipping production Android features in a team codebase
* Solid Kotlin and modern Android UI skills; willingness to work in a mid-migration codebase
* Comfort with CI, tests, and code review
* Growing end-to-end ownership of features with guidance from Senior engineers
** 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;
Jetpack Compose and/or XML Views
* Coroutines; basic DI (Hilt);
View Models / State Flow-style UI state
* REST networking; local persistence basics
* Familiarity with feature flags and mobile analytics
* Unit testing (e.g. MockK, Turbine) and willingness to grow UI/instrumentation testing  ##
** You Will:
*** Implement Android features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences
* Ship Compose UI with clear state/events; touch legacy XML only as needed with support
* Write unit tests…