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Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, technical vision, and evolution of distributed multi-tenant ELR cloud services.
- Design low-latency ingestion pipelines, format transformation engines, digital signature services, and tax-authority dispatch gateways.
- Architect self-service integration frameworks, developer toolkits, onboarding accelerators, ERP integrations, schema validation, and customer testing sandboxes.
- Standardize APIs, webhooks, SDKs, and event-driven integration patterns across the ELR product suite.
- Write production-grade foundational code, reference implementations, SDKs, and architectural prototypes.
- Drive design reviews, code reviews, performance improvements, architectural remediation, and operational resilience.
- Design AI-powered capabilities for schema mapping, error remediation, anomaly detection, data extraction, and integration testing.
- Mentor senior engineers and establish standards for API design, observability, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience designing and operating large-scale distributed cloud systems.
- Proven experience building developer tools, integration platforms, self-service onboarding engines, or enterprise integration middleware.
- Strong proficiency with modern backend languages and runtimes such as Java, C#/.NET Core, Go, or Python.
- Deep expertise in REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, EventBridge, RabbitMQ, and event-driven and microservices architectures.
- Experience with XML/XSD, JSON Schema, UBL, EDI, complex schema validation, and payload transformation.
- Extensive AWS or other major cloud-provider experience, plus Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes/ECS.
- Ability to handle complex domain logic, regulatory requirements, data sovereignty, digital signing, PKI, HSM, X.509 certificates, and cryptographic verification.
- Preferred experience in e-invoicing, live reporting, Peppol, EDI/B2B exchange, fintech, compliance, tax, ERP connectors, or middleware tooling.
- Preferred experience integrating generative AI and ML models into production data pipelines or developer tooling.
- Passion for hands-on coding, architecture, and solving complex technical challenges as an individual contributor.
Benefits
- 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 and executive sponsorship.
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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.