AI First Android Developer

OPEN OPENLANE US Inc; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

AD&D

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer day

Job summary

OPENLANE US Inc in Carmel, IN is hiring AI-first Software Engineers (Android) to build, evolve, and scale OPENLANE’s digital marketplace mobile experiences. You’ll work on customer-facing wholesale marketplace apps, collaborating closely with product, senior Android engineers, iOS, and backend teams.

AI is an accelerator, but engineering ownership remains essential. You are AI-forward, product-minded, and ownership-driven.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Android development.
• In-depth Kotlin proficiency and Android UI skills.
• Experience shipping at least one production Android app.
• AI-first mindset with active use of AI tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Implement Android features across seller and buyer marketplaces.
• Ship Compose UI with clear state/events; maintain legacy XML when needed.
• Write unit tests and meet team CI bars.
• Use AI tools daily to accelerate coding, tests, and debugging—verify before merge.
• Collaborate with Product/design and platform teams on shared concerns.

Skills

Kotlin

Android dev

Jetpack Compose

UI Testing

CI/CD

AI tooling

Unit testing

REST APIs

StateFlow

MVVM

Education

Bachelor’s in CS

Tools

Hilt

Room

WorkManager

CameraX

Jetpack Compose

Job description

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. Our end-to-end platform serves the remarketing needs of the world’s largest OEMs, dealers, fleet operators, rental companies and financial institutions. We’re a technology company delivering next generation tools to accelerate and simplify remarketing. We’re an analytics company leveraging data to inform and empower our customers with clear, actionable insights. And we’re an auction company powering the world’s most advanced digital used vehicle marketplaces. In 2021, OPENLANE sold nearly 2.6 million vehicles valued at over $40 billion through our auctions and generated approximately $2.3 billion in revenue. Our integrated digital marketplaces and vehicle logistics centers reduce risk, improve transparency and streamline the experience for customers in about 75 countries. OPENLANE continues to make investments in innovation, strategic acquisitions and integrations to better serve our customers. Headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, OPENLANE has about 5,000 employees and maintains business units across North America, Europe, the Philippines and Uruguay. Together, the OPENLANE brands provide a complete remarketing solution for our customers.

We’re Looking For:

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.

Why OPENLANE:

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.

You Are:

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.

You Bring:

• 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

Must Have's:

• 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

Nice to Have's:

• Compose in production
• Exposure to Hilt, Room, WorkManager, or CameraX
• Marketplace / e-commerce mobile experience
• Familiarity with hybrid WebView surfaces

You Will:

• 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

How You’ll Use AI in This Role:

• 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

Who You Will Work With:

• 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.

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

Compensation Range of Annual Salary: $85,000.00 - $125,000.00 USD (Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)

OPENLANE is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.