Software Engineering Manager

Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform. Our ambitious mission is to build out our global, multi-cloud SaaS solution to scale to support all global transactions while providing highest levels of resiliency and performance. The AvaTax Engineering team at Avalara is responsible for designing, building and supporting our flagship determinations platform.

You, as a Software Engineering Manager at Avalara, will be hands-on leading an AvaTax engineering team responsible for designing and driving a highly scalable, reliable, secure and performant global tax calculation engine. You will be part of the team that will drive, strategize and provide a path to build and deploy a highly distributed, multi-cloud solution integrating an ecosystem of services and data components. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded software development engineer with a proven track record of leading engineering teams in an Agile environment. As an engineering manager, you will be responsible for the daily management and support of the software engineers on the team including technical guidance, review and weekly 1-on-1s with the team members.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Engineering Manager to join our development team and manage a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers that would design and build components for our innovative tax compliance solutions.

• Lead, grow, and maintain an engineering team of 6-8 engineers working on a common Agile Scrum team
• Lead the system design and overall software development lifecycle for a set of core roadmap items
• Participate in systemwide architecture discussions and facilitate integrations across engineering teams
• Develop custom APIs and middleware to facilitate data exchange, synchronization, and real-time communication between different systems.
• Implement robust error handling, data validation, and data transformation mechanisms to ensure data integrity and accuracy during integration processes
• Optimize integration performance and scalability to accommodate a growing number of clients and increasing data volumes
• Design and implement new features and maintain existing functionalities
• Build and lead POCs to demonstrate technical feasibility
• Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding standards and practices are followed
• Implement and follow agile/scrum processes
• Collaborate with other teams to solve cross functional challenges
• Optimize code to improve application efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of successfully leading teams in building software integrations
• 3+ years leading a software development team including technical and administrative responsibilities
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Good understanding of Object-oriented programming languages
• Good understanding of eCommerce system architectures, APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
• Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
• Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
• Experience in working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
• Experience of working on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS, etc.) would be beneficial.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to be able to solve complex problems and critical production issues.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software projects on time.
• It is a position with international interaction teams only resumes sent in English will be considered.