AI First Sr. iOS Engineer (Remote)

Openlane; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Urban 401K / RRSP matching

Paid vacation/Paid leave

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

OPENLANE is hiring an AI-forward Sr. Software Engineer (iOS) to design, build, and ship buyer and seller marketplace features. You will lead iOS direction, grow SwiftUI adoption, manage shared kits, and improve testing, CI/CD, and production observability.

An ownership mindset and daily use of AI tools are expected to accelerate delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Android, backend, and QA teams to ensure a cohesive, scalable mobile experience across platforms, while maintaining high

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional iOS development (or equivalent depth).
• Proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI; experience with UIKit.
• Experience shipping apps via TestFlight / App Store.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex features and cross-cutting concerns.
• AI-first mindset and daily use of AI development tools with critical evaluation of outputs.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship iOS features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences.
• Lead technical direction on iOS: SwiftUI growth, shared kits, and cross-cutting concerns.
• Raise the bar on unit/UI/snapshot testing and PR gates; partner on release hygiene.
• Use AI tools to accelerate delivery while mentoring intermediate engineers.
• Partner with Android to align product behavior across platforms.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

MVVM

UIKit

TestFlight

Xcode

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD (Mac runners)

Fastlane

Analytics / instrumentation

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.## **We’re Looking For:**We’re hiring AI-first Sr. Software Engineer (iOS) 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 spanning seller and buyer experiences, partnering closely with Product, Android, backend, and platform 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 building and operating production iOS applications at scale* Strong fundamentals: architecture, concurrency, networking, performance, and App Store quality* Familiarity with CI/CD (including Mac runners), code review, and production observability* End-to-end ownership from design collaboration through release and follow-up**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*** Swift; SwiftUI MVVM (and UIKit/Storyboards in mature codebases)* Modular iOS architecture; SPM; shared internal kits/packages* Protocol-oriented / environment-based DI; coordinators or similar navigation patterns* Feature flags; product analytics; crash reporting; auth (e.g. OIDC/AppAuth)* Snapshot and UI testing* Fastlane-based release automation* Camera / scanning or realtime (e.g. SignalR) features ## **You Will:*** Design, build, and ship iOS features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences* Lead technical direction on iOS: SwiftUI growth alongside UIKit legacy, shared kits, and cross-cutting concerns (auth, flags, analytics)* Raise the bar on unit/UI/snapshot testing and PR gates; partner on TestFlight / App Store release hygiene* Use AI tools to accelerate delivery while mentoring Intermediate engineers* Partner with Android so product behavior stays aligned across platforms ## **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, and the sibling Android mobile team on a daily basis. ## **Must Have’s:*** 5+ years professional iOS development (or equivalent depth)* Proficiency in Swift* Experience building apps with SwiftUI* Experience shipping apps via TestFlight / the App Store* Demonstrated ownership of complex features and cross-cutting concerns* AI-first mindset and daily 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:*** Leading UIKit → SwiftUI migrations* Wholesale, marketplace, auction, or high-volume transactional mobile apps* Cross-reading Android/Kotlin PRs; mentoring experience* BrowserStack or multi-OS snapshot strategies* Familiarity with hybrid WebView / Cordova surfaces **Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. OPENLANE will not provide nonimmigrant or immigrant visa sponsorship for this employment position.** **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**Sound like a match? Apply Now - We can't wait to hear from you!****Compensation Range of**Annual Salary: $125,000.00 - $165,000.00 USD(Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)