2 months ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape architecture for a cloud-native, jurisdiction-aware platform supporting global registration, licensing, and compliance services.
- Lead modernization that consolidates shared capabilities, decouples user experiences, and improves platform scalability.
- Architect rules engines, decision systems, and workflow orchestration for long-running compliance operations.
- Design responsible AI-assisted automation with human oversight, explainability, auditability, privacy, and operational control.
- Establish scalable data models, governance strategies, and integration patterns for regulatory and licensing data.
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, and design teams to deliver platform capabilities and improve customer outcomes.
- Set standards for performance, reliability, security, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Lead architectural reviews, technical strategy discussions, and design decisions across multiple engineering teams.
- Identify and address scalability risks, technical debt, reliability concerns, and performance bottlenecks.
- Mentor engineers and promote ownership, simplification, AI-enabled engineering practices, and long-term platform sustainability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including enterprise-scale platform architecture, modernization, and distributed cloud-native systems.
- Experience designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native SaaS platforms, including hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience modernizing legacy or fragmented platforms into scalable shared-service architectures.
- Experience building rules-based, policy-driven, workflow, or compliance-oriented systems requiring auditability, traceability, security, privacy, and regulatory control.
- Demonstrated applied AI experience with large language models, agents, intelligent decisioning, or workflow automation.
- Ability to use AI in daily business and engineering work and stay current with AI trends and best practices.
Benefits
- Fully remote role.
- 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 supported by senior leadership and executive sponsors.
About Avalara
Avalara is the agentic AI platform for global tax and compliance. For over two decades, we’ve built one of the most expansive libraries of tax content and integrations in the industry. We process more than 54 billion transactions annually and support 200,000+ direct and indirect customers globally. Our purpose-built agents automate end-to-end compliance with precision: tax calculations, return filings, exemption certificate management, and beyond. Learn more at Avalara.com.