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Senior Full Stack Engineer, AI-Assisted Product Engineering

Avalara · United States · 2 wk ago
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What You'll Do

Avalara is accelerating delivery of AI-enabled capabilities across our compliance platform to improve customer experience, increase engineering velocity, and scale global operations efficiently. As transaction volumes, product complexity, and AI-driven initiatives expand, we require senior engineers who can both deliver high-quality distributed systems and materially increase leverage through applied AI. This role exists to elevate reliability, accelerate AI-enabled product delivery, and raise engineering standards across a globally distributed team. The successful candidate will directly influence delivery speed, system resilience, and AI adoption within engineering workflows and product capabilities. This Senior Software Engineer Will Increase engineering velocity through structured AI-assisted development and automation. Deliver AI-enabled product capabilities that improve customer efficiency and insight. Raise team performance standards through technical leadership, mentoring, and strong ownership. Contribute to a culture of Bar Raisers who improve talent density and execution quality. This role improves not only output, but how work gets done ,embedding AI into development workflows and strengthening architectural discipline.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

  • Deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing backend and frontend systems that support Avalara’s global compliance platform.
  • Increase development efficiency by embedding AI-assisted coding, testing, documentation, and architectural exploration into daily workflows.

  • What You’ll Need To Be Successful

    • Strong English communication skills (written and spoken) for global collaboration.
    • B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering.
    • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience aligned to senior-level scope.
    • Strong hands-on experience with React and/or React-like frameworks.
    • Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js building maintainable frontend applications.
    • Experience designing and operating distributed systems and RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
    • Experience with AWS cloud environments.
    • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
    • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab).
    • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
    • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
    • Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies.
    • Demonstrated hands-on AI usage that improved measurable business or engineering outcomes.

    AI Expectations

    • This role requires applied AI capability, not passive familiarity.
    • The Successful Candidate Must Demonstrate measurable impact from AI usage (e.g., reduced cycle time, increased automation, improved quality).

    • Bar Raiser Expectations

      • This Engineer Will Hold high standards of ownership, quality, and accountability.

      • What You Need To Be Successful

        • Strong English communication skills (written and spoken) for global collaboration.
        • B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering.
        • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience aligned to senior-level scope.
        • Strong hands-on experience with React and/or React-like frameworks.
        • Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js building maintainable frontend applications.
        • Experience designing and operating distributed systems and RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
        • Experience with AWS cloud environments.
        • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
        • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab).
        • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
        • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
        • Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies.
        • Demonstrated hands-on AI usage that improved measurable business or engineering outcomes.

        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 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.
        • We’ve been different from day one.
        • 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.

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