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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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OPENLANE

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1001 - 5000 employees

🚘 Automotive

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 B2B

💰 $10M Venture Round - OPENLANE on 2008-12

Automotive • Marketplace • B2B

OPENLANE is a company that builds and operates digital wholesale marketplaces and end-to-end services for used vehicles. It operates national and regional marketplaces across the US, Canada and Europe, provides technology platforms (auction simulcast, remarketing, inventory/inspection and vehicle data/pricing tools), and offers finance and ancillary services (floorplan/inventory financing, shipping, recovery and title/remarketing services) targeted primarily at dealers, lenders and commercial vehicle customers. The company positions itself as a B2B wholesale automotive marketplace and service provider.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate scalable services powering U.S. marketplace workflows such as Buy Now, 45M, Simulcast, and DealerBlock • Develop APIs and backend services on the modern, cloud-native, AI-enabled platform • Embed AI-driven capabilities into marketplace features including pricing logic, negotiation flows, and workflow automation • Use AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while applying strong engineering judgment • Partner with Product to translate business needs into durable, scalable technical solutions • Participate in on-call rotations and support live production systems • Improve system reliability, performance, security, and observability • Contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform evolution • Collaborate daily with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering teams • Report to an Engineering Manager

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and supporting production software systems • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience building and supporting production software systems • Backend development using Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, .NET, Ruby, or similar • Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture • Comfort working in modern CI/CD environments • Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response • Ability to own features and systems end-to-end • Active use of AI development tools such as code copilots, AI debuggers, and test generators • Curiosity about applying AI to real customer and business problems • Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs instead of blindly accepting them • Comfort learning and adapting in a fast-changing tool landscape • Frontend experience with React and TypeScript is a plus • Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms is a plus • Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures is a plus • Experience with SQL and data-driven applications is a plus • Marketplace, e-commerce, or high-volume transaction systems experience is a plus • Reliability engineering or SRE experience is a plus • Experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• 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