You, as a Principal Software Engineer at Avalara will be part of a AvaTax architecture team leading and driving scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine and its dependent services
You would also contribute to Global Architecture Review Board, Solution Architecture team and Global Architecture Team
You will report to Senior Director of Engineering
AvaTax Tax Calculation Engine performs multiple complex operations to find accurate tax calculation with very low latency
The engine needs to perform multiple thousands of such calculation every second, with a very high tax accuracy to a cent
Youll lead the architecture of the calculation engine to make it simpler to onboard a all tax type (example: Consumer Use/ VAT /) and adding support for additional countries
Youll work with multiple teams and architects to build the solution active and cloud agnostic
You would also work with teams and architects to develop core platform services

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Improve and provide a delightful customer experience for users of our APIs by - reducing cognitive load for developers to build and release APIs, increasing consistency across APIs built and delivered by multiple teams, being predictable with releases and quality of the same, and more.
Strategizing, influencing, and planning out a path for the product and services with-in AvaTax to be globally distributed and available.
Always improve the quality of our products by coming up with and implementing new plans and improving our current daily work
Improve architecture, design, and facilitate development of top priority projects
Mentor engineers and leads, share your skills and expertise, encourage creativity and new ideas
Help grow and strengthen Avalaras business by improving its technology, processes, and people

What Youll Need to be Successful

Minimum of a 4-year technical degree in Computer Science or related field
15+ years of experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Expertise in building applications using C# and .NET Core
Experience shipping customer-facing software in at least 2 core languages such as C#, Java, etc.
Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns
Experience in data modelling, database design, and building applications at scale by service-oriented architectures, microservices and industry best practices
Willingness to challenge the status-quo with the knowledge to change it
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Principal Software Engineer