Software Development Engineer

Avalara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build reliable, scalable systems for its Avalara1099 compliance product. The role includes expanding APIs and the user interface, shipping features, addressing security and performance requirements, and using AI to improve engineering productivity and customer value.

Responsibilities:

• Raise standards for technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution quality
• Improve team capability through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and clear documentation
• Reduce repeat issues by driving systemic fixes and improving diagnostic approaches
• Strengthen cross-functional execution by improving clarity and collaboration with Engineering and Product
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and workflows that increase scalability and efficiency
• Leave systems, documentation, and team capability stronger than they found them
• Use AI tools to accelerate development, root cause analysis, summarize case histories, and generate high-quality knowledge base content
• Identify automation opportunities that reduce manual troubleshooting effort
• Quantify and demonstrate measurable improvements enabled by AI (e.g., reduced resolution time, improved documentation quality)
• Share AI best practices with peers and contribute to raising AI capability across the team

Requirements:

• Exposure of a software development role, shipping complex applications to large scale production environments
• Basic Understanding of Relational Databases (Postgres)
• Good object-oriented programming technique and debugging skills
• Experience with data structures and algorithm
• Experience working in an Agile team
• Someone who loves to write optimized code
• Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions
• Motivated, persistent and "Never Give Up" attitude
• Experience with innovation and adaptability to a lean start-up culture
• Creativity, enthusiasm, and flexibility
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required
• 6+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails or C#
• Experience publishing and consuming Rest APIs
• Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Terraform)
• Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes (K8s), Docker Swarm as an orchestrator platform
• Experience securing web applications
• Understanding of scalable systems and low latency APIs
• Understanding of engineering for available and fault tolerant systems
• It is a position with international interaction teams, only resumes sent in English will be considered
• You'll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here