O que você fará
We are looking for a Technical Engineering Manager to help us build and evolve our highly distributed and scalable products.
The Avalara Engineering team is building Avalara's next generation of SaaS software to be part of every Tax calculation in the world.
You will be joining OneExperience team whose vision is to
build best in class user experience for all Avalara customers via a unified platform of tools and services.
A successful candidate will be a well-rounded engineer manager 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.
If you’re looking for opportunities to work on challenging problems, surround yourself with other hardworking talented engineers, and want to spend your time building and shipping, instead of sitting in meetings, come join the orange revolution.
- Manage direct reports, providing guidance on best practices, architecture, and development methodologies.
- Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and mentoring
- Coach team members on agile principles
- Run a Support team; serving as an escalation path for production and user support cases
- Work smart and understand how your solutions impact the goals of the business
- Implement best practices for coding as well as development processes
- Participate in an agile team - including design, development, test automation, planning, backlog refinement and support
- Support the strategic vision for the product and company
- Lead and refine development and release processes for multiple product lines
- Deliver business needs around high availability and high transactional throughput of a SaaS solution
- Be Customer and Partner Facing, able to manage an external relationship
- Be introspective, always trying to improve yourself and the team around you
- Provide guidance and support on design and technical solutions
O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido
- Four years bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments.
- Strong experience in front-end development projects.
- Experience in Node, C#,.NET or REST APIs.
- Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud - at least one of them).
- Working knowledge to build CI/CD pipeline (GitLab, Terraform).
- Experience in working in Agile team.
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithm.
- Track record of successful leadership
- Strong track record of strategic thinking
- Strong track record of working with third parties
- Strong relationship building skills
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience of creating CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in optimizing and scaling products
- Understanding of security protocols and best practices
- Understanding of AWS Solutions with focus on cost savings and scalability
- Experience working with JIRA and Confluence
- Willingness to dive in and get to the bottom of a problem
- Outstanding problem solving and debugging skills
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design & development and common design patterns
- Working knowledge of and DB, SQL or NO-SQL
- Working knowledge of Entity Framework
- Working knowledge of Web Services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Professional demeanour, team player, and a positive attitude
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Strong attention to detail
- Working knowledge of source control tools such as GitLab
- Proven ability to make things happen and meet commitments
- Experience in designing and building scalable micro service architecture
- Ability to work under pressure and thrive in a fast paced environment
Important To Know
- This is a position that will interact with international teams, for this reason only resumes sent in English will be considered.
Como cuidaremos de você
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
O que você precisa saber sobre 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.
