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Director Engineering @ Avalara Technologies

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What You'll Do
Avalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer, manager, and to use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tools.
As Director of Engineering, you will bring strategic vision and leadership to guide the development of, market-leading technology. At Avalara, we foster a collaborative and open culture aimed at simplifying tax and compliance. You will transform product vision and requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions. Avalara operates globally, with development teams across multiple geographies, yet maintains a start-up spirit focused on innovation, impact, and fun. You will be reporting to Senior Director Engineering.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be
Here are some of the things you will do when you join us:
  • Automation vs People Power: Computers are great for process automation but there is a limit to what it can do, and you know where that limit is. You will handle the unique challenges that occur at the intersection of software and people-driven tasks and apply these solutions to the novel business automation that Avalara aims to create.
  • Industry Leadership: Avalara is the market leader, and we intend on staying that way. That means we cannot be complacent. We encourage everyone to make bold moves and keep testing their limits. You will innovate and produce ideas to make things better.
  • Collaborate with teams to align integration efforts with product and our goals.
  • Lead, mentor, and inspire multiple teams, providing guidance on best practices, architecture, and development methodologies.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the engineering teams.
  • Improve design of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable integration solutions.
  • Oversee the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release support.
  • Focus on security aspects, observability, scalability, and telemetry.
  • Implement Agile/scrum processes.
  • Create organizational change aligned with product and engineering roadmaps
  • Lead teams using modern technologies and processes
  • Use industry trends and latest tech to stay ahead of the curve
  • Recruit and develop top-tier engineering talent
What You'll Need to be Successful
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 15+ years of software development experience and at least 8 years of leadership experience.
  • Navigate complex technical challenges, experience working on multiple cloud technologies
  • Experience delivering high-quality software projects.
  • Familiarity with multiple authentications, authorization protocols, and application/Infra Security
  • Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Head - Engineering
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Avalara Technologies
Location(s): Pune

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