Associate Software Engineer (hybrid)

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.

You Are:

• Detail-oriented. You will ensure the quality of the product through code reviews and a high level of unit and functional test coverage.

• Collaborative. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define, build, test, and deliver software solutions.

• Adaptable. You thrive in a fast-paced production environment where new tasks and projects are added daily.

• Creative. You are open to implementing new technologies and ideas to meet the changing needs of our unique target audience.

• Effective Communicator. You have strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.

You Will:

• Provide technical leadership to the application development team.

• Provide technical leadership to the application development team, guiding them in best practices, architecture, and design decisions.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including project managers, product owners, to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software solutions using object-oriented programming languages and frameworks.

• Conduct code reviews, identify areas for improvement, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Conduct automated testing (Unit, Integration, and End-to-End)

• Strong problem-solving skills and creativity with a desire to learn new emerging technologies.

Who You Will Work With:

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this role will collaborate with the development team, project managers, and product owners on a regular basis.

• Additionally, you may have exposure to stakeholders from other departments, such as QA, DevOps, and data engineering.

Must-Have's:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a related technical field involving coding.

• Minimum of 1+ years of experience.

• Constant desire to learn new technology and best practices, we work in various stacks and don’t expect everyone to come in knowing everything.

• Develop high-quality code to build solutions in an agile development environment.

• Participate in code reviews, planning and estimation meetings.

• Test solutions and troubleshoot issues.

• Engage in cross-discipline collaboration with team members including the product owners, designers, and testers.

Nice to Have's:

• Experience with React, NodeJs, Typescript, or Java

• Familiarity with Material Design, Bootstrap, HTML/CSS.

• Knowledge of service API development, Rest/Json, and SOAP.

• Familiarity with both transactional and NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with automated testing (Unit, Integration, Functional).

• Understanding of agile software delivery processes and DevOps.

• Familiarity with microservices architecture, serverless, and cloud functions.

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