Senior Software Engineer

What You'll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, 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 the finished product.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our development team. You will be reporting to Engineering Manager.

Here's What To Expect

• Integrations and Connectors: Dig into our cloud native Avalara product suite. We are looking to build and expand our market reach through an suite of integrations and connectors through a flexible, platform that can handle any source platforms.
• Automation vs People Power: You will solve the unique challenges that occur at the intersection of software and people-driven tasks and apply 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 cannot be complacent. You will improve and produce ideas to make things better.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, testing, and deployment of integrations between ERP systems.
• Develop custom APIs, connectors, and middleware to facilitate data exchange, synchronization, and real-time communication between different systems.
• Implement error handling, data validation, and data transformation mechanisms to ensure data integrity and accuracy during integration processes.
• Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards are followed.
• Implement Agile/scrum processes.
• Improve code to improve application efficiency.
• Ensure team is not creating technical debts.
• Take necessary corrective measures to address problems in application.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years of full stack experience in software design
• Experience with Object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with ERP and eCommerce system architectures, APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
• Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
• Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
• Experience working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
• Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS)
• Experience delivering high-quality software projects on time.

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.