What You'll Do
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 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.
Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. The work we do is fundamental to electronic commerce. We're the first to admit it - sales tax isn't charming. But revolutionizing fundamental business processes -- that's big time. And that's what we're doing every day, bringing technology to bear on the arcane process of sales tax calculation, reporting and remitting.
We have fantastic culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it.
- Design and develop scalable software components
- Design and develop integrations with other systems at Avalara and with external partners.
- Participate in an agile development team - including design, development, test automation, planning, backlog refinement and support.
- Be part of innovation culture and find ways to optimize processes and services.
- Implement best practices for coding as well as development processes
- Support our production platform, including troubleshooting & bug fixes
- Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and mentoring
- Lead conversations across teams and leadership to drive and build consensus on critical topics.
- Manage priorities, trade-offs, forecast/manage risk, identify and implement solutions in team deliverables.
- Working closely with the Product Managers to refine user stories
- 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
What You'll Need to be Successful
- 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.
- 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.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7+ years software development experience in C#, .NET.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer, science, or engineering.
- Strong knowledge of .NET framework, C#, .Net Core, TypeScript.
- Experience in engineering for developing highly available and fault tolerant software in a SaaS cloud environment. (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
- 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 etc.
- Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Working knowledge of source control tools such as GitLab, CI/CD.
- Basic understanding of Infrastructure as code i.e. Terraform etc.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud platforms.
- Experience working in product-based organizations preferred.
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
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.
