Lead Software Development Engineer

				Overview:

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.)
* Reporting to Software Engineer Manager

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Responsibilities:

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.

Qualifications:

* 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.
			

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