AI First Sr. iOS Engineer (Remote)

OPENLANE; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Immediately vested 401K/u.s. RRSP with

Paid time off

Parental leave (maternity/paternity)

Disability and life insurance

Employee assistance program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

OPENLANE is hiring an AI-first Sr. Software Engineer (iOS) to design, build, and scale our digital marketplace mobile experiences for buyers and sellers. You will lead iOS direction, marrying SwiftUI growth with UIKit legacy and shared kits, while pushing test coverage and reliable releases.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of iOS development, Swift prowess, and a strong ownership mentality. This role offers real impact in a fast-changing AI-enabled platform and requires US work authorization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Proficiency in Swift.
• Experience building apps with SwiftUI.
• Experience shipping apps via TestFlight and the App Store.
• Owns end-to-end features and cross-cutting concerns; AI-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship iOS features across seller and buyer marketplace experiences.
• Lead technical direction on iOS: SwiftUI growth alongside UIKit legacy and shared kits.
• Elevate unit/UI/snapshot tests; ensure TestFlight/App Store release hygiene.
• Mentor intermediate engineers and leverage AI tools to accelerate delivery.
• Coordinate with Android to align product behavior across platforms.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

iOS development

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Xcode

TestFlight

CI/CD (Mac runners)

UIKit

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.

Compensation Range of Annual Salary

$125,000.00 - $165,000.00 USD (Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)

OPENLANE makes wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful. 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.

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