Avalara, Inc.

About Avalara, Inc.

Avalara, Inc. is an American software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington that develops cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses, marketplaces, accounting firms, and governments. The company's platform calculates transaction taxes such as sales and use tax, value-added tax, goods and services tax, communications tax, lodging tax, and excise tax, prepares and files returns, manages exemption certificates, and supports cross-border customs duties and global e-invoicing mandates. The company was founded in 2004 by Scott McFarlane, Rory Rawlings, and Jared Vogt and was originally based on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Avalara conducted its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in June 2018 under the ticker AVLR. In October 2022 the company was taken private through an acquisition led by Vista Equity Partners valued at approximately 8.4 billion United States dollars. Avalara's product suite includes AvaTax for transaction tax determination, Avalara Returns for filing and remittance, Avalara CertCapture for exemption certificate lifecycle management, Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants, Avalara Cross-Border for global tariff and duty calculation, and Avalara e-Invoicing and Live Reporting for jurisdictions that mandate continuous transaction controls. The platform integrates with hundreds of enterprise resource planning, e-commerce, billing, and point-of-sale systems through pre-built connectors. Avalara serves more than 41,000 customers across more than 75 countries and employs several thousand people globally. India operations are anchored in Pune, where teams support product engineering, content and tax research, customer success, and global delivery. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Avalara targets software engineering, quality assurance, data engineering, content and tax research, customer support, and analytics roles, with applications routed through Avalara's careers portal at careers.avalara.com.

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