What You'll Do We are looking for a Software Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our distributed and scalable products. A successful you will be a well-rounded software development engineer with experience delivering software at scale in an Agile environment, and excel. 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 easy. 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 startup culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it. What Your Responsibilities Will Be Work with Scrum team members to design and test cloud-based software applications. You will report to Senior Manager, Software Engineer. Participate as a scrum member, estimating and evaluating existing stories, and writing new stories. Be an important participant in creating a Quality First, Zero Defects culture. Promote Shift Left approach. Develop and deliver enhancements to the existing codebase by creating well-documented, modular, and testable code. Review design specifications and create a technical design document. Display ownership over large programs and work across multiple components or technologies. Lead team in deliverables, guide increases in team velocity. Work on more strategic programs often spanning more than 1 quarter of development effort. Lead efforts to sub-divide vague requirements into applicable 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 tasks, deliverables and issues, setting the tone for your peers and team members. Experience being able to collaborate on solutions, and build agreement. Experience providing engineering support to customer support team to resolve any critical customer issues, trade-offs, forecast/manage risk, identify solutions in team deliverables. Sequence deliverables/manage priorities to minimize risk. What You'll Need to be Successful Four years bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent. (Must have) Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a software development role, shipping complex applications to large-scale production environments.(Must have) Experience in one of the front-end development frameworks preferably ReactJS (Must have) Experience in C#.NET (Must have) Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud - at least one of them), Terraform. (Must have) Working knowledge to build CI/CD pipeline (GitLab). (Must have) Experience working in Agile team. (Must have) Experience with data structures and algorithm. Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns to provide solutions with simplistic and design. Experience in any relational database management system, e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL Experience building scalable and low latency address look up systems. Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners. Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions. #LI-Onsite How We'll Take Care of You 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. Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America What You Need To Know About Avalara We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them. 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.