Software Engineer IV

Role Description

Avalara's Content Engineering platform powers compliance content that helps customers manage complex obligations across jurisdictions and products. You'll modernize the content lifecycle by building scalable, cloud-native systems and AI agents that automate content sourcing, understanding, and management at scale.

You'll also build the orchestration layer powering Content Studio. This layer enables autonomous workflows across MCP servers, AI agents, APIs, microservices, and frontend applications. These workflows create a faster, more reliable, low-touch content ecosystem. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build intelligent AI agents and orchestration layers to automate end-to-end compliance content workflows.
• Develop scalable, cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, APIs, and reusable services for new content types.
• Build React interfaces with generative AI capabilities for recommendations, updates, conflict resolution, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Improve architecture and engineering practices that enhance scalability, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and AI evaluation practices for production systems.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and data teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership, and lead responsible AI adoption.
• Create reusable engineering patterns and operating practices that improve delivery speed, quality, scalability, and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, production-grade full-stack systems, including backend services/APIs and modern frontend applications.
• Experience with distributed systems, system architecture, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native development.
• Proficiency in C#, Java, or Python and React, with experience building responsive, interactive UIs.
• Experience with generative AI features and agentic/autonomous workflows that detect, decide, and act with minimal human input.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps, AWS/cloud environments, and deploying, monitoring, and scaling services.
• Experience with Postgres and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of secure software development, including least privilege, data protection, and secure coding practices.

Benefits

• Great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
• Health benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Company Description

Avalara is defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve 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.