Automation Engineer - RPA

Avalara is an AI-first company.

We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.

You will be 

 - Leveraging AI copilots, code generation tools, and assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AmazonQ, ChatGPT) to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and prototyping.
 - Continuously upskill in AI-related technologies applicable to daily work.

Avalara is looking for a Senior Automation Engineer who will help us develop automations for Tax Filing system.

You'll deliver high-quality process automations and practice industry best practices. You will join a team of engineers responsible for delivering solutions in an Agile environment.

You will be reporting to the Engineering manager at Avalara.

This is a remote role.

• Design Automations solutions using Python, Robot Framework and our in house developed Studio tool.
• Create efficient and scalable automation workflows to automate business processes.
• Be an important participant in creating a Quality First, Zero Defects culture and promote Shift Left approach.
• Active contribution across all phases of the SDLC (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment and support)
• Collaborate with business and partners to identify and analyze business processes suitable for Automation.
• Conduct process assessments and document detailed requirements for automation solutions.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed automation solutions.
• Monitor the performance of solutions and implement necessary updates and improvements.
• Work with teams, platform engineering, departments and product management.
• Communicate the issues, dependencies to partners.
• Design and deliver intelligent automation solutions by leveraging Gen AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering field or MCA.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in Web or UI automation using any modern programming language such as Python, Java, C# etc .
• Experience with RPA tools such as Selenium, UiPath, Robocorp, or Blue Prism is a plus.   
• Scripting experience in any language like Python, Robot, Shell scripting etc is must
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML

Exposure to tools and methodologies.

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This is a remote position.

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.