Principal Engineer

As a Principal Engineer, you will apply your vision and drive to create some market leading technology. We have a phenomenal team working in an open, collaborative environment that makes taxes and compliance less taxing to deal with. It will be up to you to convert product vision and requirements into the finished product. Avalara is a global company with dev teams across multiple locations in the world. Despite our size, we maintain a startup culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can have and having fun while doing it. You will report to Sr. Director of Engineering.

• Automation vs People Power: Computers are great for process automation but there is a limit to what it can do, and you know where that limit is. You will solve the unique challenges that occur at the intersection of software and people-driven tasks and apply these solutions to the novel business automation that Avalara aims to create.
• Industry Leadership: Avalara is the market leader, and we intend on staying that way. That means we cannot be complacent. We encourage everyone to make bold moves and keep testing their limits. You will improve and produce ideas to make things better.
• Collaborate with teams to align integration efforts with product and team goals.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire multiple teams, providing guidance on best practices, architecture, and development methodologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the engineering teams.
• Ensure seamless data flow and real-time synchronization between systems, minimizing latency and ensuring data integrity for an ever-growing client-base and increasing data volumes.
• Guide the design of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable integration solutions.
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release support.
• Build POCs to demonstrate the technical solution feasibility.
• Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards are followed.
• Implement Agile/scrum processes.

Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 15+ years of full stack experience in software design.
• Experience with Object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms..
• Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
• Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
• Experience working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
• Navigate complex technical challenges.
• Experience working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS) would be beneficial.
• Experience building scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems
• Experience delivering high-quality software projects.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)