Senior Software Engineer - AvaTaxBR

O que você fará

Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform. Our ambitious mission is to build out our global, multi-cloud SaaS solution to scale to support all global transactions while providing highest levels of resiliency and performance. The AvaTax Engineering team at Avalara is responsible for designing, building and supporting our flagship determinations platform.

You, as a Senior Software Engineer at Avalara, will be hands-on as part of the core AvaTax engineering team responsible for designing and driving a highly scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine. You will be part of the team that will drive, strategize and provide a path to build and deploy a highly distributed, multi-cloud solution integrating an ecosystem of services and data components. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development engineer with a proven track record of building and executing engineering solutions working in an Agile environment.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our development team and design and build components for our innovative tax compliance solutions.

• Lead the design and overall software development lifecycle 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 robust 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 and lead POCs to demonstrate technical feasibility

• Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices are followed
• Implement and follow agile/scrum processes
• Collaborate with other teams to solve cross functional challenges
• Optimize code to improve application efficiency
• • Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 8+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of successfully leading teams in building software integrations
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Good understanding of Object-oriented programming languages
  • Good understanding of 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 in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
  • Experience of working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS, etc.) would be beneficial.
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to be able to solve complex problems and critical production issues.
  • Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time.
  • It is a position with international interaction teams only resumes sent in English will be considered.
    

Quais serão as suas responsabilidades

O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido

Four year bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required

Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments

Problem Solving And Debugging

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in debugging and performance optimization.
  
  
  

Programming Languages Specific Skils

• For dotnet
• C# fundamentals
• .Net Core
• OOPs understanding
• Multi-threading
• Async programming
• Exception handling
• Unit Testing
  
  

We prefer candidates from Java background too given they are willing to learn and adapt to C#.

Cloud Computing & DevOps

• Experience with atleast one public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Working knowledge
• Blob/object storage
• Containerization
• Container orchestration like ECS, Kubernaties
• Serverless
• RBAC (IAM etc)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshooting
• Basic understanding of Infrastructure as code
  
  

System design

• Working experience

• • OOD
  • Module design/ low level design
  • API Development
    

Development Practices And Tools

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Code review
• Experience in software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.).
  
  
  

Database Management

• Proficiency in working with relational databases (any of SQL, PostgreSQL etc)
• Exposure to NoSQL databases (any MongoDB, Cassandra etc)
• Good understanding of normalisation techniques
• Good to have - Knowledge of database optimisation
  
  
  

Software Testing

• In-depth testing knowledge

• • Unit testing
  • Functional testing
  • Integration testing
  • E2E integration tests
  • At least one code coverage tool
  • Good to Have
    
    

• • Load/performance testing
    

Como cuidaremos de você

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

O que você precisa saber sobre 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.

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.