Job Description

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What You'll Do

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 is responsible for the development of our Edge solution for the AvaTax calculation engine. We are in the process of building a new platform with the goal of seamlessly expanding our customer base and revolutionizing fundamental business processes, by giving customer the flexibility of deploying and using the cloud based AvaTax engine which reduces latency and increases the performance. AvaTax's Edge 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 senior software engineer with services/systems design and hands on experience. This team will be implementing new micro-services, support existing platform in a distributive and multi-cloud environment. 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 multi-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
• Mentor the juniors
• Drive technical excellence 
• Follow best practices and guidelines to work stakeholders to understand requirements and design best technical solution.
• Work in agile systems 
• Learn new technologies to build / implement new features

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
• 7+ Years of relevant experience required.
• Expert level proficiency in Java
• Solid understanding of OOP concepts
• Strong design skills
• Strong Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns
• 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