Architect

About the job

What You'll Do

Avalara aspires to be the global cloud compliance platform.

You, as an Architect at Avalara will be part of a dedicated architecture team leading and driving technology standards across the company in collaboration with various groups like Product Engineering / Security / Operations and IT. From being an active member of our Architecture Review Board to building new and exploratory proof of concept projects, your opportunity to make an impact will be huge. If you like a fast-paced environment with the opportunity to help shape a company’s engineering culture, quality of deliverables, influencing teams to build robust/extensible architecture, as well as development standards and processes, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for. You will be part of a team that will drive, strategize and provide a path for various engineering teams to help them change the engine while in-flight balancing realities and idealism.

To give you a realistic idea, here are a few problems that you will end up working on…

• Streamline and provide a delightful customer experience for users of our APIs by - reducing cognitive load for developers to build and release APIs, increasing consistency across APIs built and delivered by various teams, being predictable with releases and quality of the same, and more… The work in front of us here is leveraging the expertise and experience across various groups in the company, align, standardize, and come up with a path for a streamlined API experience for end users.
• Strategizing, influencing, and planning out a path for the various products in Avalara to be globally distributed and available.
• Establish and nurture trust between teams and different parts of the organization including our team
• Constantly improving the quality of our products by coming up with and implementing new initiatives and improving our current daily work
• and many more…
• Lead architecture, design, and facilitate development of top priority initiatives in the company
• Be an active member of Avalara's Architecture Review Board
• Foster and strengthen alignment and efficiency across Avalara Engineering & Product Management
• Help grow and strengthen Avalara’s business by improving its technology, processes, and people
• Shape the engineering culture of the organization in collaboration with various engineering teams
• Assist with and be an active member of our patent and IP development process
• Mentor engineers across the org and other team members, share your skills and expertise, encourage creativity and innovation
  
  
  

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Minimum of a 4-year technical degree in Computer Science or related field
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive initiatives across organizational boundaries aimed at breaking through organizational inertia
• First-hand experience leading engineering teams
• Deep empathy towards running a business, executing software projects, and the spectrum of problems in between to ensure your solutions and suggestions are pragmatic and adopted
• Extensive and proven experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Broad and extensive knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), its tools and technologies
• Broad knowledge of technologies and trends in software engineering, tax industry would be a bonus
• Experience shipping customer-facing software in at least 2 core languages such as C#, Java, NodeJS, Golang, etc.
• Strong knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns
• Advanced knowledge of Computer Science concepts
• Experience and knowledge in data modeling, database design, and building applications and services at scale via service-oriented architectures, microservices and industry best practices
• Willingness and enthusiasm to challenge the status-quo with the aptitude and tenacity to change it
• Significant time spent in this technical field, typically 15 or more years so you have had the opportunity to see a few things and do a few things
  
  
  

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.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

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, 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.

EEO Statement

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.