Avalara

Overview

Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. We are the first to admit it - sales tax calculation is not great. But revolutionizing fundamental business processes -- that's big time. And that is what we are doing every day, bringing technology to bear on arcane, tedious tasks that every business in the world must deal with. 

We are investing heavily in Connectors and Integrations to expand our product portfolio and strengthen our market leadership. And that is where you come in, to develop and expand the core layers that define Avalara's Connectors/Integrations product line. As an Engineering Manager, 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. Check us out. We'd love to talk to you about what we are up to. 

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Engineering Manager to join our development team and manage a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers that would design and build integrations between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and eCommerce platforms for our innovative tax compliance solutions. 

Responsibilities

Performance Objectives

Here are some of the things we expect you to do when you join us: 

• Integrations and Connectors: Dig into our cloud native Avalara product suite. We are looking to build and expand our market penetration through an extensive suite of integrations and connectors through a flexible, extensible platform capable of handling any source platforms. At the same time, we want to expose all the tax nuances through our integrations. Help us build and manage the team building this while maximizing performance, scalability and reliability and making it “oh-so-simple” to operate. 
• 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 tackle 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 actively encourage everyone to make bold moves and keep testing their limits. We expect you to innovate and produce innovative ideas to make things better.

You are not just another engineer when you join Avalara. You + Avalara equal endless possibilities! 

• Develop and execute a comprehensive integration strategy for connecting our tax-based solution with a range of ERPs and eCommerce platforms. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align integration efforts with overall product and business goals. 
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of skilled engineers, providing guidance on best practices, architecture, and development methodologies. 
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the engineering teams. 
• Leverage your deep understanding of ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and eCommerce platforms (e.g., Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce) to design and implement robust integrations. 
• 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. 
• Drive the design and development 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 and practices are followed. 
• Implement and follow agile/scrum processes. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent 
• 15+ years of full stack experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of successfully leading teams in building integrations with ERPs and eCommerce platforms. 
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. 
• Good understanding of Object-oriented programming languages 
• Good understanding of ERP and eCommerce system architectures, 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 in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex technical challenges. 
• Experience of working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS, etc.) would be beneficial. 
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to be able to solve complex problems and critical production issues. 
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time. 

In summary, joining Avalara as an Engineering Manager offers you the chance to work on cutting-edge technology, drive meaningful change, and contribute to a collaborative and innovative team. Your skills will be valued, your impact will be substantial, and your career will thrive in a fun-filled environment that encourages both professional and personal growth, come join us in shaping the future of tax solutions! 

About Avalara

About Avalara:

We’re 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, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities:

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.