Principal Software Engineer

• 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.)