AI First Sr. Android Developer

** 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’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/ViewBinding still present in mature codebases)

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

• Dependency injection (e.g. Hilt), coroutines, StateFlow / unidirectional UI, navigation, WorkManager

• 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 boundaries, Compose↔legacy UI coexistence, and shared platform concerns (auth/OIDC, flags, analytics)

• Raise the bar on testing (unit, UI, coverage) and CI gates; partner on Play / Firebase distribution and release hygiene

• Use AI tools to accelerate delivery while mentoring Intermediate engineers on judgment and craft

• Partner with iOS so product behavior stays aligned across platforms

### How You’ll Use AI in This Role:

• AI-assisted coding and refactoring

• AI-generated test coverage and validation

• AI-supported debugging and root-cause analysis

• AI-assisted documentation and knowledge sharing

• Applying AI tools to reduce repetitive work and increase engineering leverage

Who You Will Work With:

Reporting to an Engineering Manager (Mobile), this role collaborates closely with Product Managers, designers, backend and platform engineers, QA, and the sibling iOS mobile team on a daily basis.

### Must Have’s:

• 5+ years professional Android development (or equivalent depth)

• Proficiency in Kotlin

• Experience developing and shipping Android apps to the Play Store

• Demonstrated ownership of complex features and cross-cutting concerns

• AI-first mindset and daily use of AI development tools with critical evaluation of outputs

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

### Nice to Have’s:

• Jetpack Compose in production at scale

• Experience modernizing legacy Android (XML/Fragments → Compose; Rx → coroutines)

• Wholesale, marketplace, auction, or high-volume transactional mobile apps

• Cross-reading iOS/Swift PRs; mentoring experience

• BrowserStack or device-farm based UI testing

• Familiarity with hybrid WebView surfaces

** 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 (US)

• 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 meaningful advancement

** Sound like a match? Apply Now - We can't wait to hear from you! ** **

Compensation Range of**

Annual Salary: $125,000.00 - $16,000.00 CAD (Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)