Desired Candidate Profile
Job title: Sr. Software Engineer
About us: www.avalara.com/about/
Work Location: Pune, India
Relevant Work Experience: 5+ years
Reports to: Manager
Permanent: Yes
Department Overview:
CALC is the team which works on core tax calculation engine.
Job Overview:
A software developer who can work on AvaTax, Avalaras tax determination engine. Join our team as we strive to be part of every sales transaction in the world.
A successful candidate with well-rounded software development skills with a proven track record of delivering SaaS at scale in an Agile environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Read and understand requirements and search out ways to go big to solve the underlying problems
Be inquisitive and learn about the world of accounting, tax compliance, audits, and business practices whenever the opportunity presents itself
Implement both SQL-based and NoSQL-based data storage solutions in the appropriate contexts
Understand and plan upstream and downstream impacts of software changes
Develop from the perspective of an attacker and demonstrate every way something could go wrong
Sketch out your own test cases in the planning phase
Write integration tests and unit tests
Collaborate with team members on code reviews and test plans
Work with product management and subject matter experts to ensure that each feature is useful for, and simple enough to be understood by, the target audience
Design solid data models and make effective use of database technology
Constantly seek out ways to do a better job and improve automation
Qualifications:
Computer science degree or equivalent experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a software development role shipping complex applications to large scale production environments
Working experience on Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Ability to write great documentation
Passion to see your product be the best in the business
Demonstrable mastery of at least one language (C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, Python, Go)
Good to have:
Development experience in multiple programming languages with a preference in C#
Deployment automation scripting experience (Terraform, Packer, Jenkins)
Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
Experience with .NET Core development
Familiar with SQL and NoSQL databases (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
Familiar with AvaTax
Working Conditions:
Candidate should be available to work few hours in line with U.S/U.K. time zones as required.
Education:
UG: B.Tech/B.E. - Any Specialization, Computers
PG: Post Graduation Not Required
Doctorate: Doctorate Not Required
Contact Details:
Keyskills:
.net
c#
AWS
Jenkins
Docker
VB.NET
packer