What You'll Do
We are looking for a meticulous senior software developer with experience in building highly scalable systems to be part of one of Avalara's fastest growing platform initiatives : Workflow as a Service(WfaaS) which provides process orchestration capabilities to application teams.
In this role, you will play a key role in defining software requirements, assuming leadership of operational and technical projects and mentoring junior team members. You will have the opportunity to work autonomously with minimal supervision, leveraging your exceptional organizational and problem-solving abilities.
A strong background in software development and familiarity with agile methodologies are essential.
- Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to understand the project requirements and produce besttechnical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for new designs, evangelize implementing best practices and guidelines especially focusing on security aspects, observability, scalability, telemetry, and regulatory requirements
- Build POCs to demonstrate the technical solution feasibility
- Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices are followed
- Implement and follow agile/scrum processes
- Collaborate with other teams to solve cross functional challenges
- Act as a mentor/coach to other engineers and lead to share your knowledge and expertise
- Mentor team members in defining test strategies and guide team members on creating comprehensive test plans.
- Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to understand the project requirements and produce best technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for new designs, evangelize implementing best practices and guidelines especially focusing on security aspects, observability, scalability, telemetry, and regulatory requirements
- Build POCs to demonstrate the technical solution feasibility
- Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices are followed
- Implement and follow agile/scrum processes
- Collaborate with other teams to solve cross functional challenges
- Act as a mentor/coach to other engineers and lead to share your knowledge and expertise
- Mentor team members in defining test strategies and guide team members on creating comprehensive test plans.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of backend development experience in software design & development and building RESTful/gRPC APIs.
- Expertise in C# and/or Java
- Solid understanding of architectural styles, system design patterns
- Experience in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD/ BDD
- Experience of working with any Cloud provider. Experience on AWS Cloud would be beneficial.
- Experience with infrastrcture and Devops(Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience in building microservices and/or serverless architecture
- Experience in one or more of the programming languages like NodeJS, Go would be beneficial
- Willingness to work in in multiple languages(Java, C#, NodeJS, Go)
- Knowledge on any workflow engines such as Camunda, Temporal is a big plus.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to be able to solve complex problems and critical production issues
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
About The Team
Our team owns and builds Workflow Platform which consists of the following :
Workflow Engine : to be able to run orchestrated workflows
Job service : to be able to incoporate Jobs in workflow for Avalara agents to act on pending activities on any Tax compliance business flow
Team is versatile on multiple programming languages and devops infrastructure to build the best scalable Cloud native platform.
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.
