What You'll Do
About The Company
We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.
About The Role
We are looking for a Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our highly distributed and scalable products. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development 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 sexy. But revolutionising 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 a start-up culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with Scrum team members to plan, design, develop and test cloud based software applications.
- Participate as a scrum member, estimating and evaluating existing stories, as well as writing new stories.
- Be a key participant in creating a Quality First, Zero Defects culture. Promote Shift Left approach.
- Develop and deliver enhancements to the existing code base by crafting well-documented, modular, and testable code.
- Review design specifications and create a technical design document.
- Perform code review with peers.
- Influence the development team of engineers.
- Display ownership over complex, and large initiatives that include a medium degree of ambiguity.
- Define scopes of work across multiple components and/or technologies.
- Work independently and directly with partner teams and stakeholders to define implementation details for components.
- Self-directed, lead team in deliverables, drive increases in team velocity.
- Works on more strategic initiatives often spanning more than 1 quarter of development effort.
- Effectively lead efforts to sub-divide vague requirements into actionable scopes of work for yourself and others for single and multi-component systems/changes.
- Scope problems and break down tasks for yourself and other engineers on the team.
- Demonstrate ownership of specific self-directed tasks, deliverables and issues, setting the tone for your peers and team members.
- Works alongside senior Engineers from your, and partner teams.
- Is "Leading the way" on one or more projects, and influencing team direction.
- Owns the end-to-end delivery of one or more features within a single team.
- Recommend changes to policies and establish new procedures related to hiring, interviewing, onboarding etc.
- Actively model our company culture.
- Sharing knowledge within team in various formats (written, verbal, recordings, trainings).
Who You Are
- Four years bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent. (Must have)
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments.(Must have)
- Strong experience in front-end development framework e.g. ReactJS. (Must have)
- Experience in C#.NET and REST APIs. (Must have)
- Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud - at least one of them). (Must have)
- Working knowledge to build CI/CD pipeline (GitLab, Terraform). (Must have)
- Experience in working in Agile team. (Must have)
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithm.
- Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns to provide solutions with simplistic & optimal design.
- Experience in any relational database management system, e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL etc. PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Experience in building scalable and low latency address look up systems.
- Good debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Someone who loves to write optimized, high-performance code.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated, persistent and have “Can Do/Never Give Up” attitude.
- Passion for innovation and adaptability to a lean start-up culture.
- Creativity, motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility.
- Able to maintain momentum and navigate through short-term ambiguity.
- Values the success of the team over your individual progress, and is often taking leadership over delivering outcomes.
- Able to lead conversations including Senior management and take on key roles independently working with management and cross-teams.
- Track record of being able to collaborate on solutions, and build consensus.
- Able to manage priorities, tradeoffs, forecast/manage risk, identify and implement solutions in team deliverables.
- Sequence deliverables/manage priorities to minimize risk.
You May Also Have
- Experience building platforms and libraries that are self-contained, extendable and ready for wide scale consumption.
- Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
- Familiar with Docker containers and Kubernetes (K8s).
- Experience in securing web applications is a plus.
- Experience in highly scalable systems and low latency APIs is a plus.
- Experience in engineering for highly available and fault tolerant systems is a plus.
What You'll Need to be Successful
Four-year bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required.
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.
