Avalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer, manager, and to use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.
- AI-First Expectations - Use AI copilots, code generation tools, and assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AmazonQ, ChatGPT) to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and prototyping.
- AI-First Capability Requirements - Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate or improve software development processes and Prompt Engineering best practices - Commitment to learning and applying AI advancements relevant to your domain. - Understanding of responsible AI principles (data privacy, bias mitigation, hallucinations).
- You'll be reporting directly to an Engineering Manager.
- Our phenomenal team grows in an open, collaborative environment where making taxes and compliance less taxing is our shared mission. At Avalara, you're not just another engineer—you become part of a team where your potential is limitless.
- Avalara's vision is to be part of every transaction for every business worldwide. That means making Avalara ELR a platform who can manage compliance processes with governments across the globe—and even becoming the preferred system for governments themselves.
- Educational Background: A four year Bachelor's degree or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
- Professional Experience: Minimum 4 years of industry experience or equivalent, with hands-on coding experience and experience delivering high-quality features into production. You will share specific examples of your work and how you ensured its success.
- Cloud Expertise: You have hands-on experience with SaaS, service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web application development.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Java, Node JS, Go, React, or similar frameworks, and related technologies.
- Knowledge of MySQL, Redis, Snowflake, Prometheus, Kafka, Kinesis, and Grafana.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes). Familiarity with AWS (primary), with knowledge of Azure or GCP.
- It will be a remote role.
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AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products. Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.
You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.
You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.
You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
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.