Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform. Our ambitious mission is to build out our global, multi-cloud SaaS solution to scale to support all global transactions while providing highest levels of resiliency and performance. The AvaTax Engineering team at Avalara is responsible for designing, building and supporting our flagship determinations platform.

You, as a Senior Software Engineer at Avalara, will be hands-on as part of the core AvaTax engineering team responsible for designing and driving a highly scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine. You will be part of the team that will drive, strategize and provide a path to build and deploy a highly distributed, multi-cloud solution integrating an ecosystem of services and data components. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development engineer with a proven track record of building and executing engineering solutions working in an Agile environment.

In Short

Lead the design and overall software development lifecycle for a set of core roadmap items
Participate in systemwide architecture discussions and facilitate integrations across engineering teams
Develop custom APIs and middleware to facilitate data exchange, synchronization, and real-time communication between different systems.
Implement robust error handling, data validation, and data transformation mechanisms to ensure data integrity and accuracy during integration processes
Optimize integration performance and scalability to accommodate a growing number of clients and increasing data volumes
Design and implement new features and maintain existing functionalities
Build and lead POCs to demonstrate technical feasibility
Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry
Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices are followed
Implement and follow agile/scrum processes

Requirements

Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
8+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of successfully leading teams in building software integrations
Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Good understanding of Object-oriented programming languages
Good understanding of eCommerce system architectures, APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
Experience in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
Excellent problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
Experience of working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS, etc.) would be beneficial.