What You'll DoAvalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform. Our ambitious mission is to build out our global, multi-cloud SaaS solution to scale to support all global transactions while providing the highest levels of resiliency and performance. We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.
Job Duties
Department Overview
: The AvaTax Engineering team at Avalara is responsible for designing, building, and supporting our flagship determinations platform. We are in the process of building a new platform to seamlessly expand our customer base and revolutionize fundamental business processes, by giving customers the flexibility of deploying and using the cloud-based AvaTax engine which reduces latency and increases performance. AvaTax is a cloud-based Tax Calculation Engine tasked with executing numerous intricate operations to achieve precise tax calculations, all within a stringent low-latency SLA. The engine must conduct thousands of such calculations per second, maintaining a high level of tax accuracy down to the cent.Edge for AvaTax aims to minimize the expenses associated with expanding global coverage while offering an active-active solution.The tax engine relies on the efficient and rapid transfer of data to multiple remote sites.Your role will involve working on various micro-services to facilitate this process, operating within the K8 framework across multiple clouds.This opportunity exposes you to cutting-edge technologies, such as IOT broker, Kafka, various Cloud technologies,and the latest version of Java, all within an Agile environment.
Job Overview
We are looking for a software engineer with services/systems design and hands on experience. This team will be implementing new micro-services, support existing platform. The person should be a fast learner and able to deal with ambiguity.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Designing and developing services and components to be used in the cloud environment
- Support production systems
- Bring an operational/devops mindset to the team
- Be introspective, always trying to improve yourself and the team around you
- Drive technical excellence
- Work in agile systems
Abilities
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Team player and include others in technical/project decision making process.
- Experience in developing a software using Agile methodology
What You'll Need to be Successful
Qualification
- Education - Bachelor Degree in Comp Sci or higher
- 1-3 Years of relevant experience required.
- Expert level proficiency in Java and/or .Net Framework and C#
- Solid understanding of OOP concepts
- Strong design skills
- Knowledge of Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP)
- Knowledge of DB (PostGresSql, MySql, SQL Server)
- Knowledge of Kafka, IoT desirable
- Experience in cloud-native applications
- Experience with CI/CD
About The Team
You will be part of the team that will drive, strategize, and provide a path to build and deploy a highly distributed, multi-cloud solution integrating an ecosystem of services and data components.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.Flexible hybrid workingWe support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
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.Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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.
EEO Statement
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.
