Avalara

O que você fará

Avalara is looking for a Lead Engineer who will help us to build and maintain world class cloud based solutions.

You'll be expected to deliver high quality, well-tested UI features and API's, integrations with backend systems, and practice industry best practices.

You will join a team of seasoned engineers responsible for delivering SaaS solutions in an Agile environment.

• Work closely with Scrum team members to plan, design, develop and test cloud based software applications
• Participate as a scrum member, estimating and evaluating existing stories, as well as writing new stories
• Be a key participant in creating a Quality First, Zero Defects culture. Promote Shift Left approach
• Develop and deliver enhancements to the existing code base by crafting well-documented, modular, and testable code 
• Troubleshoot, diagnose and identify failing systems through the use of instrumentation
• Active contribution across all phases of the SDLC (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support)
• Build/Enhance CI/CD pipelines
• Be part of innovation culture and find ways to optimize processes and services
• A strong customer focus and desire to improve our customers' lives.

O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido

Skills required to do the job. Specific qualifications to be listed first (e.g., technologies, languages, etc.)

Sobre a equipe

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years of experience in a software developer role on these areas:
• Must have: 
• C#, .Net Core
• Database Postgres, SQL
• AWS
• Entity Framework
• Snowflake
• REST API, web applications and services development
• CI/CD (Gitlab)
• TypeScript, Angular/React
• Experience in engineering for highly available and fault tolerant software in a SaaS cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Experience in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD
• Knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools as well as analysing system metrics for performance and reliability tuning
• Knowledge of architectural styles, cloud design patterns and cloud security aspects
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualification: 

• Full stack development experience using C#, .net core
• Practiced knowledge of CI/CD processes and principals
• Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Strong with SQL or Postgres databases 
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence 
• Good to have Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling knowledge.
• Experience with statically-typed JavaScript variants like TypeScript

Sobre a 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, 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.