Lead Front End Engineer

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 Lead Front End Engineer with experience in frontend design and development. You will be part of the High Tech Locksmiths (HTL) (an OPENLANE Brand) Development team responsible for our Web Portal and SPA mobile optimized application. You will be involved in design, implementation, unit tests, mentoring and documentation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in popular front end frameworks, Lambdas, Node.js and API development. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 10 years frontend experience.

You Are:

• Detail-oriented. Ability to uncover low-level details during the design phase.

• Quality-driven. High standards are a must: from code quality to design to fulfilling business requirements.

• Creative. Ability to think outside the box when needed and provide solutions not immediately apparent.

• Curious. Unwavering interest in how things work. Questioning existing solutions, finding strengths and weaknesses.

• Embrace Change. Evolving with new technologies, processes, ways of thinking. Not satisfied with the this is how it has always been done mentality.

You Will:

• Understand the business objectives and systems/concepts used to achieve them.

• Design and brainstorm to help complete a greenfield project.

• Maintain feature enhancements and bugs in our legacy system.

• Take ownership and lead on all Front End software: greenfield and legacy.

• Deployment of SPA and lambdas to AWS

• Relational Database management, mostly migrations.

Who You Will Work With:

• HTL Development team

• HTL Engineering Manager - who you report to

• HTL Product Owner

• HTL and OPENLANE IT support

Must Have:

• 10+ years of front end development: expert with CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, DOM, HTML

• Expert-level experience with one or more of the following frameworks: React/Vue.js/Angular/Svelte

• Experienced with front end tools: such as Vite, Flowbite, Bootstrap, jQuery, Zod, Cypress, eslint, Pinia, etc.

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or relevant experience

• SOLID principles, Data Structures, Design Patterns

• Strong Object-oriented experience: DI, Patterns, Inheritance, Interfaces

• Basic understanding of Domain-driven Design concepts

• Some backend experience: Node, Python, PHP, RDBMs.

• Proven track record of visually aesthetic and functional front end applications.

• Containers: mostly docker development environments

Nice to Have:

• AWS: Lambdas, RDS, Secrets Manager, IAM

• Serverless Framework

• Knowledge of architectural patterns: event-driven design, CQRS, microservices

What We Offer:

• Salary range of $125,000 - $150,000 depending on experience, skill set, qualifications, and other relevant factors.

• 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

• 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!