Software Engineer - Java

Overview

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Responsibilities

Department Overview: The Avatax engineering team is responsible for the development of our Edge solution for the AvaTax calculation engine. We are in the process of building a new platform with the goal of seamlessly expanding our customer base and revolutionizing fundamental business processes, by giving customer the flexibility of deploying and using the cloud based AvaTax engine which reduces latency and increases the performance. AvaTax's Edge is a cloud-based Tax Calculation Engine tasked with executing numerous intricate operations to achieve precise tax calculations, all within a stringent low-latency SLA. The engine must conduct thousands of such calculations per second, maintaining a high level of tax accuracy down to the cent.

Edge for AvaTax aims to minimize the expenses associated with expanding global coverage while offering an active-active solution.

The tax engine relies on the efficient and rapid transfer of data to multiple remote sites.

Your role will involve working on various micro-services to facilitate this process, operating within the K8 framework across multiple clouds.

This opportunity exposes you to cutting-edge technologies, such as IOT broker, Kafka, various Cloud technologies,

and the latest version of Java, all within an Agile environment.

Job Overview

We are looking for a software engineer with services/systems design and hands on experience. This team will be implementing new micro-services, support existing platform. The person should be a fast learner and able to deal with ambiguity.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Designing and developing services and components to be used in the cloud environment
• Support production systems
• Bring an operational/devops mindset to the team
• Be introspective, always trying to improve yourself and the team around you
• Drive technical excellence
• Work in agile systems
  
  

Abilities

• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Team player and include others in technical/project decision making process.
• Experience in developing a software using Agile methodology.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualification:

• Education - Bachelor Degree in Comp Sci or higher
• 1-3 Years of relevant experience required.
• Expert level proficiency in Java and/or .Net Framework and C#
• Solid understanding of OOP concepts
• Strong design skills
• Knowledge of Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP)
• Knowledge of DB (PostGresSql, MySql, SQL Server)
• Knowledge of Kafka, IoT desirable
• Experience in cloud-native applications
• Experience with CI/CD
  
  

About Avalara

About Avalara:

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.