What You'll DoWe are looking for a Senior Full Stack Lead – Remote with expertise in scalable SaaS applications to join our Content Sourcing team at Avalara. This role is ideal for an experienced technical leader who enjoys solving complex challenges in tax compliance automation.As a Technical Leader, you will architecture, design, and implementation of full stack solutions, ensuring, reliability, and scalability. You will work with product managers, engineers, and partners to solutions that help Avalara become a part of every transaction in the world.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Build Scalable Applications: Work with your team to design, scalable, and reliable full stack applications that integrate across Avalara's ecosystem.
- Architect with a Vision: Take our requirements and translate them into software designs and technical documentation. Hands-on Development & Collaboration: Write clean, maintainable code across the full stack (front-end, back-end, and databases). Conduct peer code reviews, participate in scoping exercises.
- Guide Innovation & Ownership: Take ownership of main areas of the platform, exploring new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to improve performance, usability, and automation.
- Balance Automation & Human Effort: Build efficient process automation solutions while understanding the limitations of technology.
- Mentor & Lead by Example: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing to engineers on the team, encouraging a culture of learning and improvement.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Full Stack Development
- Frontend: Experience developing applications using React.js and Javascript.
- Backend: Proficiency in .NET (C#), Java, or Python, with experience in developing microservices, REST APIs, and web services.
- Database Expertise: knowledge of PostgreSQL or MS SQL as a primary RDBMS for transactional data.
- Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, using cloud-native services for scalable solutions.
- CI/CD & Infrastructure: Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to manage deployments and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- AI: Seeking a tech lead with an AI-first mindset and hands-on experience integrating AI technologies into real-world solutions.
- Industry Experience: Prior experience in building enterprise software products.
- Professional Experience: This is not an entry-level position—you have 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Education: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field if you can demonstrate the necessary skills through experience.
How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara 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.
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.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
Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
