Avalara is looking for a Technical Lead. We are growing and evolving our product and looking for motivated people to join us on this journey. A successful you will be a well-rounded software engineer with experience delivering software at scale in an agile environment.

In Short

Design scalable software components
Design integrations with other systems at Avalara and with external partners.
Participate in an agile development team – including development, test automation, planning, backlog refinement and support.
Be part of innovation culture and find ways to improve processes and services.
Implement best practices for coding and development processes
Support our production platform, including troubleshooting & bug fixes
Support and develop software engineers by providing advice and mentoring
Lead conversations across teams and leadership to lead and on critical topics.
Manage priorities, trade-offs, forecast/manage risk, identify solutions in team deliverables.
Work with the Product Managers to refine user stories

Requirements

8+ years software development experience
Bachelor's degree or higher in computer, science, or engineering.
Experience in engineering for developing available and fault tolerant software in a SaaS cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Experience in designing and building scalable micro service architecture.
Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server/ any other RDBMS, Entity Framework.
Working knowledge of Web Services, REST APIs, Event Driven solutions.
Working knowledge of containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes
Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence
Working knowledge of source control tools such as GitLab, CI/CD.
Experience with Infrastructure as code i.e. Terraform
2+ years of experience with AWS cloud platforms.
Experience working in product-based organizations.