What You'll Do

Avalara is accelerating its AI-first transformation by building intelligent systems that automate complex compliance workflows, understand unstructured and structured data, and enable product teams to deliver AI-powered experiences at scale. As Avalara works toward its ambition of being part of every transaction in the world, we are investing in a Senior Tech Lead to build the next generation of production AI capabilities.

Design & Architecture

Lead the end-to-end design of complex, distributed features — from data flow and API contracts through to deployment and operational observability.
Apply proven design principles (SOLID, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, 12-factor apps) to ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, and resilient.
Define and document architecture decisions clearly, with well-reasoned trade-offs that the team and stakeholders can understand and act on.
Design multi-tenant, cloud-native services that handle high classification throughput with low latency and robust fault tolerance.

Agentic AI Engineering





Build and operate agentic AI workflows — multi-step pipelines where LLM-based

agents reason over product descriptions, retrieve external evidence (web content, trade

documents, regulatory data), and deliver classification decisions with calibrated

confidence.

Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases to

ground LLM reasoning in authoritative customs and trade reference data.

Design human-in-the-loop orchestration — intelligent escalation logic that determines

when an AI agent can classify autonomously versus when it should route to a human

expert, with transparent confidence signals and audit trails.

Build and extend MCP (Model Context Protocol) server capabilities — exposing

classification APIs as tools that AI agents and partner platforms can discover and invoke

autonomously, enabling agentic compliance workflows inside ERPs and marketplace

systems.

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📌 Software Development Engineer V (Pune)
🏢 Avalara APAC
📍 Pune