Sr. Software Development Engineer at Avalara
$185,500–$306,300
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining a high-volume 1099 tax compliance product. Day-to-day work spans both an existing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL codebase and newer C# and React capabilities, including REST API development, database optimization, and production troubleshooting. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines who also wants to mentor peers and influence architecture decisions.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,300–16,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The 6+ years experience requirement is stated as 'Ruby on Rails or C#' — these are presented as interchangeable primary language gates, so Ruby on Rails is listed as the primary skill with C# as its alternative. C# is also listed separately as a preferred skill because the JD describes it as part of the expanding new platform (alongside React), suggesting it is desirable but not independently required.
React appears only in narrative/context sections describing the evolving tech stack, not in the formal requirements block, so it is marked preferred.
GitLab and Terraform are named as examples within the CI/CD pipeline requirement ('GitLab, Terraform') in the requirements section; both are treated as hard gates with common alternatives noted for GitLab.
The degree requirement is explicitly stated as 'Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required' — no equivalency escape clause is offered, so Bachelors is set as the minimum.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is described as collaborating with a U.S.-based team and the caller has confirmed fully remote; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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