1 month ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise-grade agentic applications integrated with Avalara products, platforms, services, workflows, and user experiences.
- Build end-to-end AI-enabled systems spanning backend services, APIs, data access, agent orchestration, retrieval, tool integration, frontend components, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Design reusable cloud-native platform capabilities supporting new compliance content types and improving the compliance content lifecycle.
- Make architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, resiliency, observability, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Integrate agents with enterprise applications, data sources, workflow systems, and cloud-native services.
- Establish standards for software design, code quality, continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, deployment automation, observability, incident response, and production operations.
- Improve platform performance, latency, throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.
- Evaluate and monitor AI-enabled systems and optimize model selection, routing, quality, latency, reliability, and spend.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, security, data, and domain teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, create reusable engineering patterns, and raise team capability.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, applied machine learning, generative AI, enterprise application development, or production AI systems.
- Experience building scalable distributed production systems using cloud-native architecture and at least one major cloud platform.
- Experience building enterprise agentic applications using large language models, tools, workflows, retrieval, APIs, and application integration patterns.
- Strong Python software engineering skills and experience designing backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms.
- Full-stack experience with backend services, APIs, relational databases, scalable data access, frontend-backend contracts, authentication, and modern web technologies.
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, support, and continuous improvement.
- Experience shipping and supporting production machine learning, large language model, or AI-enabled application systems beyond prototypes.
- Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, prompt design, evaluation, classification, agent tool-use patterns, small language models, or large language model workflows.
- Experience with asynchronous or distributed workflows, observability, monitoring, deployment automation, and production operations.
- Ability to design for security, access control, governance, compliance, reliability, maintainability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Strong system design skills, cross-functional technical leadership, mentoring ability, and experience leading design reviews.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- Many employees are eligible for bonuses.
- Benefits generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance, varying by location.
- Inclusive culture with employee-run resource groups and senior leadership sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Avalara
Avalara builds cloud software that automates tax calculation, returns filing, exemption certificate management, and cross-border compliance for businesses, with deep integrations into e-commerce and ERP platforms. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, it is privately held and owned by Vista Equity Partners. The company sells SaaS subscriptions and managed filing services to help organizations comply with U.S. sales tax and international VAT/GST requirements.