Overview
Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform.
You, as a Principal Software Engineer at Avalara will be part of a AvaTax architecture team leading and driving scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine and its dependent services. You would also contribute to Global Architecture Review Board, Solution Architecture team and Global Architecture Team. You will report to Senior Director of Engineering.
AvaTax Tax Calculation Engine performs multiple complex operations to find accurate tax calculation with very low latency. The engine needs to perform multiple thousands of such calculation every second, with a very high tax accuracy to a cent. You'll lead the architecture of the calculation engine to make it simpler to onboard a all tax type (example: Consumer Use/ VAT /) and adding support for additional countries. You'll work with multiple teams and architects to build the solution active and cloud agnostic. You would also work with teams and architects to develop core platform services.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be:Improve and provide a delightful customer experience for users of our APIs by - reducing cognitive load for developers to build and release APIs, increasing consistency across APIs built and delivered by multiple teams, being predictable with releases and quality of the same, and more.
Strategizing, influencing, and planning out a path for the product and services with-in AvaTax to be globally distributed and available.
Always improve the quality of our products by coming up with and implementing new plans and improving our current daily work
Improve architecture, design, and facilitate development of top priority projects
Mentor engineers and leads, share your skills and expertise, encourage creativity and new ideas
Help grow and strengthen Avalara's business by improving its technology, processes, and people
What You'll Need to be Successful:Minimum of a 4-year technical degree in Computer Science or related field
15+ years of experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Expertise in building applications using C# and .NET Core
Experience shipping customer-facing software in at least 2 core languages such as C#, Java, etc.
Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns
Experience in data modelling, database design, and building applications at scale by service-oriented architectures, microservices and industry best practices
Willingness to challenge the status-quo with the knowledge to change it
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
#LI-Remote
This is a remote role.
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.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America
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
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India