Software and DevOps Engineer - AvaTaxBR

What You'll Do

This is a remote position, for people who live in Brazil only!

Avalara is an AI-first company.

We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.

As a Software Engineer at Avalara, reporting to a Software Engineering Manager, you will be hands-on as part of the core AvaTax Platform engineering team responsible for designing and driving a scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine. You'll be part of the team to lead a path to build and deploy a distributed, multi-cloud solution integrating an ecosystem of services and data components. To be successful you will be a well-rounded software development engineer with experience developing engineering solutions working in an Agile environment.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Design overall software development life cycle for a set of core roadmap items
• Participate in systemwide architecture discussions and facilitate integrations across engineering teams
• Develop custom APIs 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
• Optimize integration performance and scalability to accommodate a growing number of clients and increasing data volumes
• Design and implement new features and maintain existing functionalities
• Build PoCs to demonstrate technical feasibility
• Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards are followed
• Implement Agile/Scrum processes
• Increase code to improve application efficiency
• Continuously upskill in AI-related technologies applicable to daily work.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Advanced English
• 5+ years of experience in a Software Development / DevOps Engineer role, shipping applications to large-scale production environments
• Experience programming with at least one OO language (C#, Java, Typescript, etc.)
• Experience with programming features like Multi-threading, Async, Exception handling, and Unit Testing
• Experience with APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
• Experience with DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with cloud software deployment (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure) and the main managed services offered (object storage, databases, serverless, etc.)
• Experience with container orchestration like ECS, Kubernetes
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. Sql Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSql databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth, token-based authentication, and RBAC (IAM)
• Experience working in an Agile team with hands-on with TDD, BDD
• Experience delivering high-quality software projects on time

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.

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - 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. 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.