AI First Software Engineer
$110,000–$130,000 year
On-site · Carmel, Indiana, United States
Job Summary
Join OPENLANE as an AI First Software Engineer to build, evolve, and scale the U.S. marketplace platforms using AI tools to enhance development speed and quality. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating scalable services, developing APIs, and embedding AI-driven capabilities into marketplace features. Ideal candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in production software systems, a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, proficiency in backend development, and a strong understanding of APIs and cloud-native architecture. Key skills include the ability to own systems end-to-end and actively use AI tools in development.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience building and supporting production software systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience building and supporting production software systems
- Backend development (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, .NET, Ruby, or similar)
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture
- Comfort working in modern CI/CD environments
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response
- Ability to own features and systems end-to-end
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- Frontend experience (React, TypeScript) is a plus
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
- SQL and data-driven applications
- Marketplace, e-commerce, or high-volume transaction systems
- Reliability engineering or SRE experience
- Experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems
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