Staff Software Engineer (Remote)

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.

Location:

Remote with limited travel to Carmel, Indiana.

About Our Candidate: 

Are you an innovative and passionate Software Engineering leader who enjoys finding solutions to a variety of business challenges? Are you looking for a place where your input and ideas will make a difference? Can you set and drive a clear Architecture Vision and Strategy to build API first, Event Driven, Domain Driven, Cloud First applications? Are you someone who has the desire and proven ability to learn and evolve to meet the demands of a changing marketplace? Do you enjoy the highly collaborative nature of working in an agile/scrum environment? Do you drive to have a positive impact on the lives of customers?

We are seeking talent that will demonstrate their experience and skills to help us transform PAR’s (OPENLANE Brand) existing software applications into a modern and scalable system. This system serves as the foundation for business innovation and growth. We are passionate about talking to technical leaders who have a track record of developing quality software and implementing world class solutions. We offer excellent pay and time off, benefits, flexible work schedules, training opportunities, and a fun environment working with state-of-the-art tools.

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Help develop and drive the Architecture vision, strategy and execution for our systems.

• Help us build our platform of the future based on API First and Cloud First best practices.

• Be a collaborative member of an autonomous cross-functional team to define, build, test, and deliver innovative enterprise-grade solutions. 

• Senior technical resource engaged with product management and the business.

• Identifying problems and opportunities and championing the development of innovative solutions.

• Ensure development of high quality code using clean code practices, and automated testing.

• Drive technology innovation, standards, and best practices.

• Be a team player and set a good personal example of positive attitude and performance.

• Participate in all related Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) program increment and sprint related events.

• Mentor other team members in best practices, providing guidance for implementation strategies.

What You Need to Be Successful: 

• Critical Thinking and First Principle Thinking abilities.

• Working knowledge of architectural patterns, Event Driven, Domain Driven, API First, Cloud First and Clean Code principles

• Working experience in Cloud First architecture and development (AWS preferred).

• Proven ability to deliver high quality enterprise solutions.

• Experience with large, complex, and highly scalable systems.

• Experience in TypeScript, Node.js, Angular, Serverless and OO language fluency (java or C#, SQL and database fluency. 

• Experience in agile software development processes.

• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools like Azure DevOps and Git.

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in technical areas

Preferred Skills:

• Amazon AWS Cloud First: API Gateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Lambda, Relational Database Service, etc.

• TypeScript, Node.js, Angular, PLSQL/Oracle and Serverless 

• Test Automation and Behavior Driven Development