Senior Full Stack Engineer, AI-Assisted Product Engineering

Avalara•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

About The Position

Avalara is accelerating the delivery of AI-enabled capabilities across its compliance platform to improve customer experience, increase engineering velocity, and scale global operations efficiently. This role is crucial for elevating reliability, accelerating AI-enabled product delivery, and raising engineering standards across a globally distributed team. The successful candidate will directly influence delivery speed, system resilience, and AI adoption within engineering workflows and product capabilities. This Senior Software Engineer will increase engineering velocity through structured AI-assisted development and automation, deliver AI-enabled product capabilities that improve customer efficiency and insight, and raise team performance standards through technical leadership, mentoring, and strong ownership. The role also contributes to a culture of 'Bar Raisers' who improve talent density and execution quality, embedding AI into development workflows and strengthening architectural discipline.

Requirements

Strong English communication skills (written and spoken) for global collaboration.
B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience aligned to senior-level scope.
Strong hands-on experience with React and/or React-like frameworks
Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js building maintainable frontend applications.
Experience designing and operating distributed systems and RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
Experience with AWS cloud environments.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies.
Demonstrated hands-on AI usage that improved measurable business or engineering outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience in SaaS or enterprise-scale platforms.
Experience in compliance, financial systems, or regulated domains.
Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Hold high standards of ownership, quality, and accountability.
Use strong judgment in architectural and technical tradeoffs.
Improve the performance of peers through coaching and example.
Leave systems, processes, and documentation stronger than they found them.

Responsibilities

Deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing backend and frontend systems that support Avalara’s global compliance platform.
Increase development efficiency by embedding AI-assisted coding, testing, documentation, and architectural exploration into daily workflows.
Contribute to AI-enabled product features that enhance automation, data processing, and customer-facing intelligence.
Improve deployment frequency, code quality, and automated test coverage through CI/CD and engineering best practices.
Reduce production incidents and improve system observability through thoughtful architecture and proactive monitoring.
Lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions for complex distributed systems.
Raise the performance of the team through mentoring, peer feedback, and high standards of ownership and accountability.
Collaborate effectively with global engineering, product, and business stakeholders in English.