Software Development Engineer (I4)

Job Description:What You’ll DoOverview:We are looking for a Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our highly distributed and scalable Services and Solutions. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development engineer with a proven track record of delivering software at scale in an Agile environment.Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. The work we do is fundamental to electronic commerce. We’re the first to admit it – sales tax isn’t charming. But revolutionizing fundamental business processes — that’s big time. And that’s what we’re doing every day, bringing technology to bear on the arcane process of sales tax calculation, reporting and remitting.We have fantastic culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it.Job Duties:

• Create, review and breakdown complex design specifications.
• Understand product strategy, priorities, metrics and standards to recommend optimal solutions.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Perform code reviews and champion efforts of quality across the team.
• Work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Address non-functional requirements like security, performance and load for the product.

• Troubleshoot, diagnose and identify failing systems through the use of instrumentation.
• Mentor, coach team and share knowledge on technical skills and capabilities.
• Be part of innovation culture and find ways to optimize processes and services.
• Manage priorities, trade-offs, forecast/manage risk, identify and implement solutions in team deliverables.
• Lead conversations across teams and leadership to drive and build consensus on critical topics.

What You’ll Need to be SuccessfulWhat You’ll Need to be Successful

• Four year bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required.
• Minimum of 7 to 14 years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments.
• Experience working in product based organizations preferred (most recent).
• Experience in engineering for highly available and fault tolerant software in a SaaS cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools as well as analysing system metrics for performance and reliability tuning.
• Expert and past demonstrated capabilities of architectural styles, cloud design patterns and cloud security aspects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

Programming Languages specific skills:

• C#, .Net Core, TypeScript
• OOPs understanding
• Multi-threading
• Async programming
• Exception handling
• Unit Testing

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, Kubernetes
• Serverless
• CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshooting
• Basic understanding of Infrastructure as code

System design:

• Working experience

• OOAD, Cloud Design Patterns
• Module design/ low level design
• API Development

Development practices and tools:

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

Database Management:

• Proficiency in working with relational databases (any of SQL, PostgreSQL etc)
• Good to have – Knowledge of database performance 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

How We’ll Take Care of YouTotal RewardsIn 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:
About AvalaraWe’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 StatementWe’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.