Software Development Engineer V

				Overview:

The Software Development Engineer V (Senior Technical lead) will be a cornerstone in advancing Avalara's Content Engineering mission - leading the charge toward autonomous content management powered by AI agents and generative AI technologies. This role is critical to transforming how Avalara sources, understands, and manages global compliance content, bringing us closer to our vision of being part of every transaction in the world.

As part of the Content Engineering team, you will develop the orchestration layer and main systems that allow autonomous behavior within Avalara's Content Studio. Your work will center around developing scalable MCP servers, AI agents, APIs, microservices and the frontend. It will also involve integrating these components with our content platforms. Furthermore, the project aims to embed advanced AI/ML capabilities, creating a agentic, low-touch content ecosystem. You will be reporting to senior engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

* You will build a network of intelligent AI agents that distinct content management tasks and collaborating to achieve end-to-end automation.

* Develop scalable backend APIs and microservices using the .NET stack; integrate with MCP servers and event-driven content pipelines

* Develop an orchestration layer that coordinates agentic workflows, including stale content detection, version reconciliation, and update scheduling

* Build an autonomous content system by minimizing manual steps and allowing human review only when needed

* Build analytics, logging, and feedback loops to improve agent accuracy and reduce false positives

* Build responsive, intelligent front-end interfaces (React) that surface agent recommendations, resolve conflicts, and support human-in-the-loop overrides

* Embed generative AI logic in the UX: draft suggestions, auto-populate updates, prompt confirmation, and explain agent decisions

* Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge sharing and best practices

* Be a technical lead on complex projects, providing architectural guidance and hands-on implementation

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Qualifications:

* 8+ years of experience designing and building scalable, production-grade systems across the stack, including backend services/APIs and modern frontend applications.

* Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming languages such as C#, Java or Python

* Proficiency in React, with experience building responsive, interactive user interfaces

* Experience with generative AI features preferred (e.g., suggestions, auto-updates, prompt confirmations)

* Experience building agentic or autonomous workflows, especially in systems that detect, decide, and act with minimal human input is preferred

* Experience with event-driven and distributed system architectures

* Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps workflows

* Experience deploying, monitoring, and scaling services in AWS or other cloud environments

* Experience with data storage systems such as Postgres

* Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

* Familiarity with observability best practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, and feedback loops

* Understanding of secure software development practices, including least privilege, data protection, and secure defaults

* Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical execution on complex project.

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