What You'll Do
We are looking for a experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team. You will have a solid background in software development, and experience working in a collaborative environment. You will design, developing, testing, and maintaining our software applications, with a focus on scalability, and reliability. Additionally, you will create automated solutions that support our customers in filing large volumes of indirect tax returns. Your contributions will ensure that our software meets the highest standards of quality and functionality. You will report to Sr. Engineering Manager.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software applications and automation tools, ensuring best practices in coding and testing are consistently applied.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and provide constructive feedback to team members.
- Perform rigorous unit testing and debugging to identify and resolve software defects, ensuring a robust and reliable application.
- Take a leading role in promoting a "Quality First, Zero Defects" culture, advocating for the Shift Left approach in software development and testing to catch issues early in the process.
- Monitor code in production environments, proactively resolving any issues that arise within specified timelines to minimize downtime.
- Continuously explore and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance the performance, scalability, and capabilities of our software products.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation for software designs, technical specifications, and implementation processes.
- Collaborate with managers to effectively prioritize and plan software development tasks, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Adhere to agile methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum throughout the software development and maintenance lifecycle, contributing to an efficient and adaptive workflow.
- Work Location: Avalara Pune office (Hybrid Mode)
What You'll Need to be Successful
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, with 4 years of relevant work experience in software development or automation roles.
- Experience in writing unit and integration test cases to ensure software quality and reliability.
- Prior experience working within an Agile team is important for this role.
- Proficient in object-oriented design, with a understanding of common design patterns.
- Experience in communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners for collaboration within the team and with partners.
- Experience providing engineering support to customer support team to resolve any critical customer issues.
- Recent experience from a product-based company.
Technical Skills
- Expert-level proficiency in .Net C# and Python, with experience using the Robot Framework.
- Experience with server-side programming models and REST API standards.
- Proficient in working with relational databases, such as SQL.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms AWS.
- Experience with continuous integration, deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Proficient in using Git for source control.
- Familiarity with web scraping frameworks like Selenium.
- Experience designing and building scalable microservice architectures.
About The Team
This is a remote role.
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.
