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 Waybuilders: 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 are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building scalable, cloud-native APIs for a green field project. You will be involved in the design and development of a new system to replace our legacy system. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in application development, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and performance tuning. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in relevant areas.
You Are
- Detail-oriented. You will ensure the quality of the product through code reviews and a high level of unit and functional test coverage.
- Relentlessly Curious. You are constantly learning and seeking ways to improve yourself and the processes around you.
- Supportive. You enjoy mentoring and supporting other team members by conducting code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership.
- Confident. You not only love to code, but you're also excellent at it!
- Business-oriented: Strong focus on understanding business objectives, requirements, and logic.
You Will
- Continuously work on designing and implementing backend architecture and APIs for a green field project.
- Lead technical discussions on software architecture and testing to ensure that we do not compromise on quality and performance.
- Mentor other developers including peer programming, code reviews, and documentation.
Must Have’s
- 10+ years designing and developing business applications.
- 3+ years hands-on experience with distributed systems: event-driven microservices, CQRS.
- Strong understanding of software principles, OOP, data structures, and algorithms.
- Design first, code later attitude.
- Passionate about technology and continues to learn.
- React experience (intermediate level).
- TypeScript/JavaScript for Node.js runtime or Browsers.
- PHP (intermediate level) and Framework experience, preferably Laravel.
- PostgreSQL (Pl/pgSQL, Stored Procedures), MySQL, SQL outside an ORM.
- AWS lambda, RDS, EventBridge, S3 and ability to pick up other services as needed.
- Azure DevOps, GitHub, agile development, pipelines.
- Strong git experience: branching, merging, resolving conflicts, reverts, etc.
- University degree or advanced diploma in a software engineering-related discipline, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Have’s
- Serverless Framework.
- Vite.
- Esbuild.
- Vue.js.
- RabbitMQ and Pub/Sub pattern.
What We Offer
- 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.
- 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 rapid advancement.