Who We Are:
At OPENLANE we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.
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We’re a technology company building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles.
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We’re a data company helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use.
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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:
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Detail-oriented. You will ensure the quality of the product through code reviews and a high level of unit and functional test coverage.
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Relentlessly Curious. You are constantly learning and seeking ways to improve yourself and the processes around you.
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Supportive. You enjoy mentoring and supporting other team members by conducting code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership.
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Confident. You not only love to code, but you’re also excellent at it!
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Business-oriented: Strong focus on understanding business objectives, requirements and logic.
You Will:
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Continuously work on designing and implementing backend architecture and APIs for a green field project
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Lead technical discussions on software architecture and testing to ensure that we do not compromise on quality and performance.
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Mentor other developers including peer programming, code reviews and documentation.
Must Have’s:
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10+ years designing and developing business applications
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3+ years hands on experience with distributed systems: event-driven microservices, CQRS
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Strong understanding of software principles, OOP, data structures and algorithms
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Design first, code later attitude
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Passionate about technology and continues to learn
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React experience (intermediate level)
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TypeScript/JavaScript for Node.js runtime or Browsers
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PHP (intermediate level) and Framework experience, preferably Laravel
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PostgreSQL (Pl/pgSQL, Stored Procedures), MySQL, SQL outside an ORM
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AWS lambda, RDS, EventBridge, S3 and ability to pick up other services as needed
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Azure DevOps, GitHub, agile development, pipelines
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Strong git experience: branching, merging, resolving conflicts, reverts, etc.
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University degree or advanced diploma in a software engineering-related discipline, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Nice to Have’s:
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Serverless Framework
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Vite
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Esbuild
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Vue.js
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RabbitMQ and Pub/Sub pattern
What We Offer:
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Competitive pay
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Medical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions (US) and FSA options (US)
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Immediately vested 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada) with company match
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Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time
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Paid maternity and paternity leave (US)
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Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D
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Robust Employee Assistance Program
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Employer paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer
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Tuition Reimbursement for eligible programs
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Opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization
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Company culture of internal promotions, diverse career paths, and rapid advancement
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