Software Development Engineer - AvaTax Engineering

What You'll Do

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.

This is a remote position for candidates who live in Brazil.

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 quality aspects of our deliverables
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards are followed
• Implement Agile/Scrum processes
• Increase code to improve application efficiency

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/Engineering role, shipping applications to large-scale production environments
• Experience programming with some OO language (C#, Java, Node.JS, 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 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
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze support tickets requiring technical investigation and problem-solving.

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 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.