AI First Android Developer

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 hiring AI-first Software Engineers (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, partnering closely with Product, Senior Android engineers, iOS, and backend teams. AI is an accelerator. Engineering ownership still matters.

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

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.

Core Engineering Skills

Experience shipping production Android features in a team codebase

Solid Kotlin and modern Android UI skills; willingness to work in a mid-migration codebase

Comfort with CI, tests, and code review

Growing end-to-end ownership of features with guidance from Senior engineers

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; Jetpack Compose and/or XML Views

Coroutines; basic DI (Hilt); ViewModels / StateFlow-style UI state

REST networking; local persistence basics

Familiarity with feature flags and mobile analytics

Unit testing (e.g. MockK, Turbine) and willingness to grow UI/instrumentation testing

Implement Android features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences

Ship Compose UI with clear state/events; touch legacy XML only as needed with support

Write unit tests and meet team CI bars (formatting, coverage)

Use AI tools daily to accelerate coding, tests, and debugging—then verify before merge

Collaborate with Product/design and learn shared platform concerns (flags, analytics, auth) under Senior guidance

Pair with iOS counterparts on shared product behavior

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

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

3+ years professional Android development (or equivalent depth)

Proficiency in Kotlin

Experience shipping at least one production Android app

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

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

Compose in production

Exposure to Hilt, Room, WorkManager, or CameraX

Marketplace / e-commerce mobile experience

Familiarity with hybrid WebView surfaces