What You'll Do
Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. We're the first to admit it - sales tax calculation isn't great. But revolutionizing fundamental business processes -- that's big time. And that's what we're doing every day, bringing technology to bear on arcane, tedious tasks that every business in the world must deal with.
We are investing heavily into Connectors and Integrations to expand our product portfolio and strengthen our market leadership. And that's where you come in, to develop and expand the core layers that define Avalara's Connectors/Integrations product line. As a Software Architect, you will apply your vision and drive to create some market leading technology. We have a phenomenal team working in an open, collaborative environment that makes taxes and compliance less taxing to deal with. It will be up to you to convert product vision and requirements into finished product.
Avalara is a global company with dev teams across multiple locations in the world. Despite our size, we maintain a startup culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can have and having fun while doing it. Check us out. We'd love to talk to you about what we are up to.
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Principal Engineer to join our development team and lead the design and implementation of integrations between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and eCommerce platforms for our cutting-edge tax compliance solutions.
Here are some of the things we expect you to do when you join us:
- Integrations and Connectors: Dig into our cloud native Avalara product suite. We are looking to build and expand our market penetration through an extensive suite of integrations and connectors through a totally flexible, extensible platform capable of handling any source platforms. At the same time, we want to expose all the tax nuances through our integrations. Show us how to create that while maximizing performance, scalability and reliability and making it “oh-so-simple” to operate.
- Automation vs People Power: Computers are great for process automation but there's a limit to what it can do, and you know where that limit is. You will tackle the unique challenges that occur at the intersection of software and people driven tasks and applying these solutions to the novel business automation that Avalara aims to create.
- Industry Leadership: Avalara is the market leader, and we intend on staying that way. That means we can't be complacent. We actively encourage everyone to make bold moves and keep testing the limits. We expect you to innovate and come up with new ideas to make things better.
- Team Leader: Drive the team to deliver more than they ever thought they could by providing expert knowledge, mentoring, and leadership. We want someone who not only understands how the system currently works, but also envisions how it should work. Share that vision with the team and empower them to make it a reality.
You are not just another engineer when you join Avalara. You + Avalara equal endless possibilities!
What You'll Need to be Successful
Job Duties
- Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment of integrations between ERP systems (such as SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, NetSuite) and popular eCommerce platforms (such as Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce).
- Architect custom APIs, connectors, and middleware to facilitate data exchange, synchronization, and real-time communication between different systems.
- Design and implement frameworks and features instrumental in building the next generation of Integrations.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to ERP and eCommerce systems, and proactively recommend enhancements to the integration process.
- Represent the Integrations team at Architecture Review board
- Provide technical leadership for new designs and evangelize best practices and guidelines implementation.
- Participate in design discussions, build POC, and contribute to delivering high-quality products/features/frameworks.
- Ensure the team is not creating technical debts.
- Collaborate effectively with team members and expert groups on code reviews and test plans with an eye towards automation.
- Taking corrective measures to address problems and anticipating problems in new designs and work.
- Focus on optimization, performance, security, observability, scalability, and telemetry.
- Lead discussions with stakeholders on requirements and design aspects related to critical technical components, frameworks, interfaces, etc.
- Be an author who documents the architectural decisions, designs, comparisons, and analysis.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 15+ years of full stack experience in software design and development, shipping complex applications to large-scale production environments
- Expert in Object oriented programming languages
- Profound understanding of ERP and eCommerce system architectures, APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
- Expert at architectural styles and design patterns to solve complex problems with simple, intuitive design.
- Experience in architecting, building, and deploying (CI/CD) highly scalable distributed systems and frameworks for small businesses and enterprises.
- Solid experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
- Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
- Experience in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
- Experience of working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, etc.) would be beneficial.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to be able to solve complex problems and critical production issues.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Self -motivated and focus on automating everything.
- Passion to see your product be the best in the business.
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time.
- Strong Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
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.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America
What You Need To Know 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.
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.
