What You'll Do
Avalara is accelerating the modernization and AI-enablement of its compliance platform to support expanding product complexity, global growth, and high transaction volumes.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to serve as a technical anchor and Bar Raiser within a globally distributed engineering organization. This role exists to deliver reliable full-stack capabilities, modernize distributed systems, strengthen engineering practices, and lead the practical adoption of AI across software delivery workflows.
The successful candidate will directly improve delivery speed, platform resilience, operational excellence, and engineering standards, while contributing to scalable customer-facing capabilities across Avalara’s compliance platform.
This Software Development Engineer will elevate Avalara across three dimensions:
- For the Business: Accelerate delivery while reducing operational risk, enabling the platform to scale across products, customers, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes.
- For the Team: Raise engineering standards through technical leadership, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, mentorship, and practical AI adoption.
- For the Customer: Improve availability, performance, reliability, and product quality, ensuring dependable compliance experiences for customers globally.
This position is also open to people with disabilities (PcD), in accordance with Law No. 8.213/91
(Esta vaga também é destinada a pessoas com deficiência (PcD), conforme Lei nº 8.213/91)
**Once you apply, please submit your CV in EN.**
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What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure backend services and APIs using .NET and C#, as well as modern web applications using React and TypeScript.
- Design and operate resilient distributed systems using REST and GraphQL service contracts, with sound approaches to scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Embed AI-assisted coding, automated test generation, documentation, refactoring, and architectural analysis into daily engineering workflows to measurably improve velocity and quality.
- Contribute to AI-enabled product capabilities that improve automation, data processing, customer efficiency, or operational insight.
- Design for high availability and operational excellence using proactive monitoring, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and actionable alerting.
- Lead incident investigation and root-cause analysis; implement preventative improvements that reduce recurrence and improve mean time to recovery.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release quality, and automated test coverage using GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Lead technical design discussions, evaluate trade-offs, define service contracts, and reduce technical debt in partnership with Product, Architecture, and engineering stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, provide constructive peer feedback, participate in interview panels, and raise team standards for ownership, quality, and accountability.
- Collaborate effectively with global engineering, product, and business stakeholders in English.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Required Qualifications
- Strong English communication skills, written and verbal, for collaboration with globally distributed teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and operating production-grade enterprise software.
- Strong hands-on experience with .NET and C# building scalable, resilient APIs and microservices.
- Solid experience with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development practices.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems and RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cloud environments.
- Experience configuring and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab CI/CD.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- Solid understanding of relational database design, querying, and performance tuning; experience with SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract testing.
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve measurable engineering or business outcomes.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise-scale, compliance, financial, or other regulated platforms.
- Experience with high-volume transaction processing systems.
- Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
- Experience participating in disaster recovery design, operational readiness, or cloud-native resilience exercises.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Bar Raiser Expectations
At Avalara, we hire and promote individuals who raise the bar—those who improve the average performance of the team through their presence.
This engineer will:
- Hold high standards for ownership, quality, security, and accountability.
- Exercise sound judgment in architectural decisions, balancing delivery speed with long-term resilience.
- Simplify complexity, challenge assumptions respectfully, and ground decisions in data and measurable outcomes.
- Improve the performance of peers through coaching, example, and constructive feedback.
- Leave systems, documentation, processes, and teams stronger than they found them.
Avalara is an AI-first Company
AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products. Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.
You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.
You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.
You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.
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.
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
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.
Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field; 8+ years software engineering; strong .NET/C#, React, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform; English communication; AI tool experience.
Key Responsibilities
- building backend services
- developing web applications
- leading technical design
Skills & Tools
.NET, C#, React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
Job Details
- Category: Software Development
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Brazil
- Salary: BRL 319,300 – 574,900 / year
- Languages: English
Benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Generous parental leave
About Avalara
A cloud compliance platform processing billions of tax transactions annually. — Industry: Information Technology