[Hiring] Senior Software Engineering Manager @Avalara

Role Description

The Senior Manager will lead Avalara's 9–11 member Compliance India team in Pune, driving delivery, technical direction, and an AI-first, high-performance culture. The role will restore delivery velocity, strengthen team performance, translate strategy into execution, raise engineering standards, and accelerate AI-driven returns automation to improve filing accuracy, reduce errors, and support customer retention. You will report to Senior Director, Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 9–11 software engineers and SDETs across backend, frontend, and QA disciplines based in Pune, India.
• Oversee delivery execution for the Compliance India scrum team — including sprint planning, backlog grooming, release management, and cross-team dependency coordination.
• Drive delivery of AI-enabled and automation-first engineering capabilities including notice management automation, data retention, rejected filings workflows, and agentic compliance solutions.
• Establish and maintain consistent practices for code quality, test coverage, CI/CD discipline, and system observability.
• Partner with Product Management, TPOs, and cross-functional stakeholders to align roadmap priorities and deliver.
• Apply AI tooling (Claude Code, Glean, custom GPTs) to improve team velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase engineering leverage.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and coaching conversations to grow individual contributors and retain top talent.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, headcount planning, and talent decisions within TCO Returns.
• Ensure adherence to Avalara's security, compliance, and data governance standards for a tax technology platform.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience in product-focused engineering organisations (SaaS, enterprise software, or technology product companies); consult firm or staff-augmentation experience alone does not meet this requirement.
• 5+ years of engineering people leadership within a product engineering organisation, with direct ownership of team performance, delivery, and career development.
• Develop distributed engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Technical foundation in C#/.NET and TypeScript; ability to contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Experience with scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platform development.
• SQL knowledge (Postgres, Snowflake or equivalent).
• Delivery track record: shipping enterprise-grade software on time and within scope.
• Experience in regulated industries (finance, tax, healthcare, or similar).
• Familiarity with tax compliance, returns filing systems, or compliance automation.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Terraform).
• Experience managing teams across time zones in a global engineering organisation.
• Demonstrated AI tooling adoption and measurable productivity impact.

Benefits

• 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.

Company Description

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.

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.