Engineering Skills and Training Development Specialist Details

Engineering Skills and Training Development Specialist

Avalara - Seattle, WA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out! We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things: Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Engineering Skills and Training Development Specialist to join our team.

Avalara is seeking a coding bootcamp instructor who wants to join an international, fast-growing Engineering division, and create a robust program for immersing new hires across the globe in our tech stack, coding best practices, and architecture framework.

Avalara's ambitious mission is to be a part of every transaction in the world. As governments increase their demands on businesses to be tax compliant, this means developing cutting-edge technology to process millions of sales on-demand and populate tax returns all over the world. We need to ramp up new software developers and testers in an efficient manner.

The objective of the Coding Bootcamp Instructor role is to educate all new technical hires in our preferred technologies and most-used coding languages and to develop test environments that facilitate effective training in our data, storage, UIs, infrastructure, code review standards, and code bases.

Responsibilities include:

• Become knowledgeable in our tech stack and products / services
• Develop special projects for each new hire to execute in lower test environments, as well as the curriculum needed for each hire in our various functional areas based on the technologies, languages, and platforms they leverage
• Enroll each applicable person into the bootcamp program
• Host live bootcamp workshops in other time zones
• Guide students through internal processes and standards
• Further document and educate students on coding principles and best practices
• Assess participation and the quality of deliverables; report on the attitude and effort of each employee to their hiring manager
• Generate platform development and curriculum feedback; continuously incorporate improvements to the participant experience

About Avalara

• Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.
• Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.
• Avalara’s headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com
• Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.