Join a backend team that powers Avalara’s reporting and APIs on a globally distributed, 24/7 platform serving customers worldwide.
In your first 12 months, success means scalable, hardened services with clear SLOs, region-aware observability, and measurable improvements in latency and reliability across regions.
You’ll own projects end to end—design, build, deploy, operate—modernizing pragmatically while strengthening API contracts and correctness in a regulated domain.
You’ll help make tax compliance dependable at global scale;

Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power global reporting, with a focus on reliability, performance, and data correctness.
Own features end to end: write and review code, add tests, ship via CI/CD, and monitor production using metrics, logs, and traces to meet SLOs.
Work daily with product and adjacent engineering to break work into sprint-sized increments, refine API contracts, and deliver improvements to latency, scalability, and usability.
Participate in on-call, triage incidents with runbooks, and drive follow-ups that prevent repeats while keeping security and compliance requirements front and center.

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production backend services/APIs end to end (deploy, monitor, on call) with defined SLOs for a 24/7, globally distributed platform.

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and relational databases; able to model data, write efficient queries, and tune performance.

• Hands-on with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, and observability (metrics, logs, traces) to diagnose issues and improve latency and reliability.

• Proven ability to reduce technical debt and evolve legacy components incrementally without disrupting customers.

• Security- and compliance-minded development (authn/z, PII handling, auditability, secure coding) aligned to regulated domains.

• Clear written/verbal communication: concise docs/ADRs, effective code reviews, and collaborative delivery in two-week sprints.

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.

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.