Lead Software Development Engineer
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
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Professional Experience: 12 years of industry experience or equivalent, with experience delivering high-quality features into production.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience at a Senior Technical Lead level
- Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with SaaS, service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web application development. Experience with system performance trade-offs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Java (preffered) or C#.NET, Node.js, Python, Go 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.
- Expertise in addressing "-ility" challenges such as extensibility, observability, scalability, and reliability.
- T-Shaped Skillset: Broad technological knowledge with expertise in specific areas.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is mandatory. Your role will involve international team interactions, and only resumes submitted in English will be considered.
