Senior Software Engineer

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Summary: Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive platform adoption, leverage AI capabilities, and ensure quality delivery across engineering teams at Sovos. Highlights: 1. Critical role in adopting Core Platform and AI Platform capabilities 2. Positioned at the intersection of Engineering, Architecture, and AI 3. Opportunity to build institutional knowledge and accelerate adoption **Build your future with Sovos.** If you're seeking a career where innovation meets impact, you've come to the right place. As a global leader, Sovos is transforming tax compliance from a business requirement to a force for growth while revolutionising how businesses navigate the ever\-changing regulatory landscape. At Sovos, we're dedicated to more than just solving compliance challenges – we're committed to making a positive and lasting difference. Our teams operate on the modern edge of digital technology, working not only to solve complex business challenges but also to enrich our personal, professional, and local communities. Our purpose\-built systems provide the tools you need to thrive in a world where governments demand increased visibility, faster reporting and greater control over business processes. Excited about the possibilities? So are we! Don’t worry if you don't check all the boxes – apply anyway. We're focused on hiring the right people, not just the "right" resume. It's not about what you've done elsewhere; it's all about what you're capable of doing here. **The Work You'll Do:** At Sovos, we're transforming how businesses navigate the evolving regulatory landscape while simultaneously modernizing our technical infrastructure. We're seeking a **Senior Software Engineer** who will play a critical, hands\-on role in helping engineering teams across the organization adopt our **Core Platform and AI Platform capabilities** — and in raising the quality bar for how that adoption happens over time. Positioned at the intersection of **Engineering, Architecture, and AI technology**, this role is highly visible and strategic. You'll work directly with teams to accelerate delivery, write the playbooks that make adoption easier, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure code ships with quality and confidence. The Senior Software Engineer will act as an **embedded accelerator for teams across Sovos**, helping them move faster and build better by leveraging our Core Platform and AI Platform investments. *More specifically you will:* ### **Driving Platform Adoption Across Engineering Teams** Your core responsibility is helping engineering teams successfully adopt Core Platform and AI Platform components and methodologies. This means going beyond documentation — you'll embed alongside teams, understand their codebases, identify adoption blockers, and deliver practical solutions that make our platform capabilities feel native to their workflows. * Directly contribute to team codebases using AI\-assisted development techniques and Core Platform patterns. * Navigate diverse technical domains quickly to provide timely, high\-impact adoption support. * Serve as a trusted guide for teams learning to use AI coding assistants, prompt engineering best practices, and platform APIs. * Identify friction points in the adoption journey and proactively resolve or escalate them. * Help engineering teams understand and effectively apply Core Platform and AI Platform capabilities. ### **Writing Skills to Accelerate and Improve Adoption** You'll build the institutional knowledge that makes adoption increasingly self\-sustaining. This means authoring **Skills** — structured, reusable guidance and automation that help teams do the right thing by default — and continuously improving them based on real\-world feedback. * Author and maintain Skills that encode best practices for Core Platform and AI Platform adoption. * Capture patterns that emerge from hands\-on team engagements and translate them into reusable guidance. * Establish and evolve guidelines for AI coding assistant usage, including prompt engineering, code quality standards, and workflow integration strategies. * Continuously improve Skills based on what's working, what teams struggle with, and changes to the platform. * Help create repeatable approaches that enable engineering teams to adopt new technologies more efficiently. ### **Collaborating with Stakeholders to Build Test Plans and Deploy Code** You'll work closely with product and engineering stakeholders to make sure that adoption efforts result in production\-quality outcomes — not just proofs of concept. You'll bring rigor to the testing and deployment phase so teams can ship with confidence. * Partner with engineering teams and product stakeholders to co\-author test plans for platform\-integrated features. * Support end\-to\-end deployment cycles, from development through staging to production. * Identify quality and security considerations for AI\-generated and platform\-integrated code. * Demonstrate how to incrementally improve architecture while delivering measurable business value. * Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and resolve technical blockers throughout the development lifecycle. * Help teams deliver reliable, maintainable solutions while adopting new platform capabilities. **What We Need From You:** * **7\+ years of experience in software development**, with demonstrated ability to work across multiple codebases and technical domains. * Experience — or strong enthusiasm — for **AI coding assistants** in professional contexts, such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar tools. * Strong technical depth in **JavaScript and React**. * Familiarity with **Java and/or .NET service\-oriented systems** is a plus. * A track record of enabling other engineers through mentorship, documentation, shared tooling, or hands\-on pairing. * Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non\-technical stakeholders. * Strong problem\-solving instincts, with the ability to balance immediate team needs with longer\-term platform and architectural improvements. * Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to author Skills, documentation, and guidance that other engineers can rely on. * Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases, technologies, and technical domains. * A collaborative approach and a strong interest in helping engineering teams adopt new technologies and ways of working. **What Does Sovos Offer You?** The tools to enhance your life – because we want you to enjoy your life outside of work and inside! * An opportunity to work with a global team * Bi\-Weekly Meeting Free Days! * Mentoring Programs * Globally recognised Training and Development programs * Benefits *Sovos is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment that celebrates diversity and where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate against race, color, religions, national origin, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic provided by law. At Sovos, all employees are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work.* **Company Background** Sovos is a global provider of tax, compliance and trust solutions and services that enable businesses to navigate an increasingly regulated world with true confidence. Purpose\-built for always\-on compliance capabilities, our scalable IT\-driven solutions meet the demands of an evolving and complex global regulatory landscape. Sovos’ cloud\-based software platform provides an unparalleled level of integration with business applications and government compliance processes. More than 100,000 customers in 100\+ countries – including half the Fortune 500 – trust Sovos for their compliance needs. Sovos annually processes more than three billion transactions across 19,000 global tax jurisdictions. Bolstered by a robust partner program more than 400 strong, Sovos brings to bear an unrivaled global network for companies across industries and geographies. Founded in 1979, Sovos has operations across the Americas and Europe, and is owned by Hg and TA Associates. For more information visit http://www.sovos.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.