Sr. Software Engineer

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 

Compensation Range of

Annual Salary: $110,000.00 - $155,000.00

(Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)