Job Description

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About the Company:

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.

About the role:

We are looking for a Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our highly distributed and scalable products. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development engineer with a proven track record of delivering software at scale in an Agile environment, have the ability to work under pressure and thrive in a fast paced environment.

Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. The work we do is fundamental to electronic commerce. We're the first to admit it - sales tax isn't sexy. But revolutionising fundamental business processes -- that's big time. And that's what we're doing every day, bringing technology to bear on the arcane process of sales tax calculation, reporting and remitting.

We have a start-up culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it.

What you'll do:

• 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.
• Review design specifications and create a technical design document.
• Perform code review with peers.
• Influence the development team of engineers.
• Display ownership over complex, and large initiatives that include a medium degree of ambiguity.
• Define scopes of work across multiple components and/or technologies.
• Work independently and directly with partner teams and stakeholders to define implementation details for components.

• Self-directed, lead team in deliverables, drive increases in team velocity.

• Works on more strategic initiatives often spanning more than 1 quarter of development effort.

• Effectively lead efforts to sub-divide vague requirements into actionable scopes of work for yourself and others for single and multi-component systems/changes.

• Scope problems and break down tasks for yourself and other engineers on the team.

• Demonstrate ownership of specific self-directed tasks, deliverables and issues, setting the tone for your peers and team members.

• Works alongside senior Engineers from your, and partner teams.

• Is "Leading the way" on one or more projects, and influencing team direction.

• Owns the end-to-end delivery of one or more features within a single team.
• Recommend changes to policies and establish new procedures related to hiring, interviewing, onboarding etc.
• Actively model our company culture.

• Sharing knowledge within team in various formats (written, verbal, recordings, trainings).

Who You Are:

• Four years bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent. (Must have)
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments.(Must have)
• Strong experience in front-end development framework e.g. ReactJS. (Must have)
• Experience in C#.NET and REST APIs. (Must have)
• Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud  - at least one of them). (Must have)
• Working knowledge to build CI/CD pipeline (GitLab, Terraform). (Must have)
• Experience in working in Agile team. (Must have)
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithm.
• Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns to provide solutions with simplistic & optimal design.
• Experience in any relational database management system, e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL etc. PostgreSQL is preferred. 
• Experience in building scalable and low latency address look up systems.
• Good debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Someone who loves to write optimized, high-performance code.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, persistent and have “Can Do/Never Give Up” attitude. 
• Passion for innovation and adaptability to a lean start-up culture.
• Creativity, motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility.

• Able to maintain momentum and navigate through short-term ambiguity.

• Values the success of the team over your individual progress, and is often taking leadership over delivering outcomes.

• Able to lead conversations including Senior management and take on key roles independently working with management and cross-teams.

• Track record of being able to collaborate on solutions, and build consensus.

• Able to manage priorities, tradeoffs, forecast/manage risk, identify and implement solutions in team deliverables.

• Sequence deliverables/manage priorities to minimize risk.

You May Also Have:

• Experience building platforms and libraries that are self-contained, extendable and ready for wide scale consumption.
• Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Familiar with Docker containers and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience in securing web applications is a plus.
• Experience in highly scalable systems and low latency APIs is a plus.
• Experience in engineering for highly available and fault tolerant systems is a plus.