AI-First Software Engineer: Scale AI-Powered Platforms

OPENLANE; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

RRSP with company match

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Service day volunteering

Job summary

OPENLANE is seeking AI-first Software Engineers to build and scale our U.S. marketplace platforms from our Vancouver-area team. You will apply AI as a core development tool to accelerate delivery while preserving strong engineering judgment and ownership.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Infra, and SRE to ship resilient, scalable systems and continuously improve observability and performance across services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience building and supporting production software systems.
• Strong understanding of APIs and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable services powering U.S. marketplace workflows (Buy Now, 45M, Simulcast, DealerBlock).
• Develop APIs and backend services on a modern, cloud-native, AI-enabled platform.
• Embed AI-driven capabilities into marketplace features such as pricing, negotiation, and workflow automation.
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation with sound 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 evolution.

Skills

Backend development

APIs & distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD environments

Observability & monitoring

End-to-end ownership

AI-enabled development tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

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Job description

OPENLANE is seeking AI-first Software Engineers to build and scale our U.S. marketplace platforms from our Vancouver-area team. You will apply AI as a core development tool to accelerate delivery while preserving strong engineering judgment and ownership.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Infra, and SRE to ship resilient, scalable systems and continuously improve observability and performance across services.