Software Development Engineer

The AvaTax for Communications engineering team is looking for software engineers to join us in building cutting-edge, cloud-based SaaS solutions. This role is critical to delivering real-time tax calculations for the communications industry, helping businesses stay compliant while enhancing customer satisfaction.

• Expansion of our .NET Core web application using the latest AWS technologies to provide a secure and best in class user experience for our customers 

• Performance tuning and streamlining processes with focus on through-put and reliability 

• Designing, expanding, and maintaining scalable reporting systems which manage millions of monthly data records 

• Production support, including a shared on-call rotation (typically a 1-week rotation per team member every month or so) in collaboration with our global support team and well-established escalation procedures 

• Stay abreast in new technologies including AWS, .NET & database systems 

• Be introspective, always trying to improve yourself and the team around you

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science plus at least 5 years' experience in software engineering 

• Experience creating and maintaining REST APIs in a C# codebase (or similar language) 

• Proficiency with querying and modifying schemas for relational databases such as MSSQL and experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB 

• CI/CD experience using automation tools such as Gitlab pipelines, GitHub Actions, etc. 

• Docker, AWS - S3, RDS, EC2, Lambda, Aurora Postgres 

• Understanding of security protocols and best practices  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with batch processing (ETL workloads), message queuing systems (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ) and big data warehousing (Snowflake) 

• Experience interacting with customers and providing technical support for SaaS products 

• Experience with the communications/telecom industry with a focus on taxation 

• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript frameworks such as React 

• Experience with C and/or C++