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 are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (JS/Typescript/Node.js) (Remote) with experience in Product development process. You will be part of an autonomous cross-functional team. You will be involved in defining, building, testing and delivering innovative enterprise-grade solutions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in working with Backend technology such as Node.js and Typescript. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience.
Responsibilities and Duties:
What You Will Be Doing:
Product development process – it’s more than solely coding. Be collaborative member of the autonomous cross-functional team to define, build, test and deliver innovative enterprise-grade solutions
This role will lead systems and environment development for NEW applications based on existing and well-established platforms. There is a large team of industry, product and technical experts to help - you will have all the support you could ask for.
We use a modern development stack on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, RDS, and OpenSearch – we are primarily an open source shop. We run on Slack, ADO, GitHub, Honeycomb, Splunk and other top industry technologies.
You will be working in a stable business environment with strong organizational and management support, so you can focus on your craft. Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose are core tenants that serve to drive us every day.
What You Need to Be Successful:
7+ years of experience with high quality object-oriented code
7+ years of professional experience building Node.js backend applications
Strong knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks
Solid understanding and experience working with relational DBs like Postgres, MySQL or Oracle
Experienced with development for AWS and/or with other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
Knowledge with Typescript
Experienced in developing REST APIs
Strong experience with Git source control
Experience in development of large-scale SaaS and cloud-native applications
Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring junior developers
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
Excellent communication and presentation skills to interact with both internal and external people
Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or above
Passion for high-quality execution, technical and operational excellence.
Proven track record working in an agile environment with sharp focus on shipping frequently while managing competing priorities and timelines.
Demonstrated passion for agile principles, values and continuous improvement of engineering processes
Strong believer and promoter of built-in-quality, DevOps mindset and automation
Solid understanding of software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns and web system architecture
Support continuous improvements initiatives and actively identify bottlenecks and ways to improve engineering practices and development process
Promoter of writing well-designed, reusable, testable and efficient code
Contribute in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
Strong ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues
Plus:
Knowledgeable with test-driven development
Familiarity with AWS technologies such as Lambda and Kinesis
Familiarity with the Serverless Framework
Familiarity with micro services
Familiarity with MongoDB, DynamoDB or any other No-SQL databases
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!
We thank all applicants. However, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
Compensation Range of
Annual Salary: $120,000.00 - $155,000.00(Depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.)