Job Description

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What You';ll Do
Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. We are the first to admit it - sales tax calculation is not great. But changing fundamental business processes -- that';s big time. And that is what we are doing every day, bringing technology to bear on arcane, tedious tasks that every business in the world must deal with.
We are investing in Connectors and Integrations to expand our product portfolio and strengthen our market leadership. And that is where you come in, to develop and expand the core layers that define Avalara';s Connectors/Integrations product line.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Director Engineering to join our development team and manage a team of experienced and motivated engineering team that would develop integrations between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and eCommerce platforms for our tax compliance solutions.
This is a fully remote role, that reports into the Senior Director of Engineering. #LI-Remote
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
As a Director Engineering, you will apply your vision and drive to create some market leading technology. We have a phenomenal team working in an open, collaborative environment that makes taxes and compliance less taxing to deal with. It will be up to you to convert product vision and requirements into the finished product.

• Develop Integrations &; Connectors: You will build and manage an suite of integrations for our cloud-native Avalara product suite. You will help improve our market reach by creating a flexible, extensible platform that handles diverse source platforms and exposes critical tax nuances. You';ll do this building while maximizing performance, scalability and reliability.
• Automate Business Processes: Address challenges at the intersection of software automation and human-driven tasks, developing solutions to improve business processes.
• Create Innovation: Develop ideas to enhance Avalara';s industry leadership.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Bachelor/master';s degree in computer science or equivalent

• 15+ years of full stack experience in software development, with experience leading teams in building integrations with ERPs and eCommerce platforms.
• Experience with Object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with ERP and 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 working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
• Experience on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS) would be beneficial.

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 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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, 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. 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.
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. '