Director Of Engineering

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