Software Development Engineer (I4)

What You'll Do

What You Will Do

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.

When You Join Us, You Won't Just Write Code—you'll Transform a Product Vision Into Powerful, Scalable Solutions. Here's What You Can Expect To Do

• Avalara e-Invoicing and Live Reporting: Dive into our multi-patented, cloud-native product suite. Help build a flexible, platform for electronic invoicing and live reporting across industries and geographies. You will focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and simplicity.
• Design with Vision: Turn product requirements into software designs and architectural documentation. Your technical expertise will guide the team, boosting productivity and promoting growth through knowledge sharing.
• Code, Review, Commit: Collaborate with a dynamic team to deliver more than you thought possible. You'll research and implement the best libraries and frameworks, write clean and efficient code, participate in code reviews, and contribute to both public APIs and customer-facing UIs.
• Create Industry-Leading Products: As the market leader, we never settle. You'll own main areas within our platform, improve boldly, and push boundaries to maintain our competitive edge.
• Balance Automation with Human Insight: Handle unique challenges at the intersection of automation and human ingenuity. We value smart automation but know the human touch is irreplaceable.)
• Proactively identify opportunities to integrate AI into features, systems, or services.
• Use AI to accelerate delivery velocity, innovation cycles, and maintain code quality.
• Collaborate with Product Management to apply AI responsibly in user-facing features.
• You'll be reporting directly to the Tech Lead.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Our phenomenal team grows in an open, collaborative environment where making taxes and compliance less taxing is our shared mission. At Avalara, you're not just another engineer—you become part of a team where your potential is limitless.

Avalara's vision is to be part of every transaction for every business worldwide. That means making Avalara ELR a platform who can manage compliance processes with governments across the globe—and even becoming the preferred system for governments themselves.

When you join Avalara, you're stepping into a space where bold ideas are encouraged, collaboration drives success, and new ideas knows no bounds.

Ready to shape the future of global tax compliance? We'd love to connect and show you what we're building!

This is a remote role.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

What You Need To Be Successful

• Educational Background: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Professional Experience: 12 years of industry experience or equivalent, with experience delivering high-quality features into production. You will share specific examples of your work and how you ensured its success.
• Cloud Expertise: You have hands-on experience with SaaS, service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web application development. You have a understanding of system performance trade-offs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability.Demonstrate expertise in addressing challenges such as extensibility, observability, scalability, and reliability.
• Technical Skills:Proficiency in Java, React, Angular, or similar frameworks, and related technologies.Knowledge of MySQL, Redis, Snowflake, Prometheus, Kafka, Kinesis, and Grafana.Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).Familiarity with AWS (primary), with knowledge of Azure or GCP.
• T-Shaped Skillset: You'll bring broad technological knowledge with expertise in specific areas.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is mandatory. Your role will involve international team interactions.

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.