[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Avalara

Role Description

Avalara is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead distributed engineering teams building scalable, cloud-native SaaS solutions. You will help drive execution, improve engineering quality and reliability, and help deliver secure, high-performance systems that simplify tax compliance for customers. You will report to the Director of Engineering.

What the Team Does

• Build and evolve cloud-native platforms that support tax compliance across large-scale transaction environments.
• Focus on scalable architecture, strong engineering fundamentals, operational excellence, and modern development practices.
• Improve speed, quality, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop distributed engineering teams delivering scalable SaaS solutions.
• Drive predictable, high-quality execution across multiple Scrum teams.
• Support architectural decisions that improve scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Strengthen CI/CD, automation, and DevOps practices to improve deployment speed and quality.
• Be an escalation point for production and customer-impacting issues.
• Partner with Product, UX, Architecture, and other stakeholders to align technical work with our priorities.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers.
• Use metrics to guide decisions and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen engineering fundamentals across object-oriented design, microservices, APIs, and secure development.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled development practices that improve team effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience delivering large-scale production systems.
• 2+ years of engineering management or equivalent leadership experience leading distributed teams.
• Experience with front-end and full-stack development using technologies such as React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, C#, .NET, and REST APIs.
• Experience designing and building scalable microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using tools such as GitLab, Terraform, and Docker.
• Experience with scalability, performance optimization, and secure development practices.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• Demonstrated use of data and metrics to drive measurable improvements.
• Applied experience using AI to improve engineering outcomes such as speed, quality, scale, or cost efficiency.
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.

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 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.

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.