What You'll Do
Avalara is looking for a Software Engineer to work on our core EMEA VAT Products. We are growing and evolving our product and looking for motivated people to join us on this journey. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software engineer with a proven track record of delivering software at scale in an agile environment, have the ability to work under pressure and thrive in a fast paced environment.
- Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and mentoring
- Work smart and understand how your solutions impact the goals of the business
- Be introspective, always trying to improve yourself and the team around you
- Implement best practices for coding as well as development processes
- Participate n an agile team - including design, development, test automation, planning, backlog refinement and support
- Design and develop scalable software components
- Design and develop integrations with other systems at Avalara and with external partners.
- Support our production platform, including troubleshooting & bug fixes
- Communicate potential risks, delays, concerns and status to stakeholders
- Design and develop the applications, tools, new features in a product
- Understand Product requirements or customer problems and provide technical solutions; come up with technical designs and implement new features
- Own features from inception stage through production deployment and operation
- Maintain overall product quality by fixing bugs and improving performance
- Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices
- Engage in development activity throughout agile development iterations to ensure on time code delivery
- Participate in planning, estimation and provide inputs on required development tasks
- Be a key participant in creating a ‘Zero Defects’ development culture
- Be part of the continuous integration and production deployment process
- Working closely with the Product Managers to refine user stories
What You'll Need to be Successful
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 5 to 8 years software development experience in C#
- Bachelors degree or higher in computer, science, or engineering
- Recent experience from a PRODUCT BASED COMPANY is highly preferred
- Outstanding problem solving and debugging skills
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design & development and common design patterns
- Strong knowledge of .NET framework
- Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server/ any other RDBMS
- Working knowledge of Entity Framework
- Working knowledge of Web Services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Professional demeanour, team player, and a positive attitude
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Demonstrated high standards of excellence
- Strong attention to detail
- Working knowledge of source control tools such as GitLab
- Working knowledge of JIRA
- Previous experience working within an agile team is essential
- Ability to work within a dispersed non co-located team
- Experience of AWS
- Experience of creating CI/CD pipelines
- Experience writing unit and integration tests
- Proven ability to make things happen and meet commitments
- Experience in designing and building scalable micro service architecture
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
