Principal Software Engineer

What You'll Do

Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform.

You, as a Principal Software Engineer at Avalara will be part of a AvaTax architecture team leading and driving scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine and its dependent services. You would also contribute to Global Architecture Review Board, Solution Architecture team and Global Architecture Team. You will report to Senior Director of Engineering.

AvaTax Tax Calculation Engine performs multiple complex operations to find accurate tax calculation with very low latency. The engine needs to perform multiple thousands of such calculation every second, with a very high tax accuracy to a cent. You'll lead the architecture of the calculation engine to make it simpler to onboard a all tax type (example: Consumer Use/ VAT /) and adding support for additional countries. You'll work with multiple teams and architects to build the solution active and cloud agnostic. You would also work with teams and architects to develop core platform services.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Improve and provide a delightful customer experience for users of our APIs by - reducing cognitive load for developers to build and release APIs, increasing consistency across APIs built and delivered by multiple teams, being predictable with releases and quality of the same, and more.

Strategizing, influencing, and planning out a path for the product and services with-in AvaTax to be globally distributed and available.

Always improve the quality of our products by coming up with and implementing new plans and improving our current daily work

Improve architecture, design, and facilitate development of top priority projects

Mentor engineers and leads, share your skills and expertise, encourage creativity and new ideas

Help grow and strengthen Avalara's business by improving its technology, processes, and people

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

Minimum of a 4-year technical degree in Computer Science or related field

15+ years of experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Expertise in building applications using C# and .NET Core

Experience shipping customer-facing software in at least 2 core languages such as C#, Java, etc.

Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns

Experience in data modelling, database design, and building applications at scale by service-oriented architectures, microservices and industry best practices

Willingness to challenge the status-quo with the knowledge to change it

Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

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.

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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business_._ Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down 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.