Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote-North America (EST preferred)

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 (.Net Core/C#/JS/Typescript/Node.js) (Remote) with experience in the software development process. You will be part of an autonomous cross-functional team. You will be involved in defining building testing and delivering innovative enterprise-grade solutions. In this role you will have the opportunity to use your experience in working with Backend technology such as Node.js and Typescript. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience.

Responsibilities and Duties:

What You Will Be Doing:

• Product development process – it’s more than solely coding. Be collaborative member of the autonomous cross-functional team to define build test and deliver innovative enterprise-grade solutions

• This role will lead systems and environment development for NEW applications based on existing and well-established platforms. There is a large team of industry product and technical experts to help - you will have all the support you could ask for.

• We use a modern development stack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Lambda Kinesis DynamoDB RDS and OpenSearch – we are primarily an open source shop. We run on Slack ADO GitHub Honeycomb and other top industry technologies.

• You will be working in a stable business environment with strong organizational and management support so you can focus on your craft. Mastery Autonomy and Purpose are core tenants that serve to drive us every day.

What You Need to Be Successful:

• 7+ years of experience with high quality object-oriented code

• 7+ years of professional experience building Node.js backend applications

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks

• Solid understanding and experience working with relational DBs like Postgres MySQL or Oracle

• Experienced with development for AWS and/or with other cloud platforms (Azure GCP)

• Knowledge with Typescript

• Experienced in developing REST APIs

• Strong experience with Git source control

• Experience in development of large-scale SaaS and cloud-native applications

• Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring junior developers

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to interact with both internal and external people

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science Software Engineering or above

• Passion for high-quality execution technical and operational excellence.

• Proven track record working in an agile environment with sharp focus on shipping frequently while managing competing priorities and timelines.

• Demonstrated passion for agile principles values and continuous improvement of engineering processes

• Strong believer and promoter of built-in-quality DevOps mindset and automation

• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals data structures design patterns and web system architecture

• Support continuous improvements initiatives and actively identify bottlenecks and ways to improve engineering practices and development process

• Promoter of writing well-designed reusable testable and efficient code

• Contribute in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle

• Strong ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues

Plus:

• Knowledgeable with test-driven development

• Familiarity with AWS technologies such as Lambda and Kinesis

• Familiarity with the Serverless Framework

• Familiarity with micro services

• Familiarity with MongoDB DynamoDB or any other No-SQL databases

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