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:
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.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in software development
- Experience with or strong enthusiasm for AI coding assistants 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
- Experience enabling engineers through mentorship, documentation, shared tooling, or hands-on pairing
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving ability and capacity to balance immediate needs with long-term platform improvements
- Excellent written communication skills for authoring documentation and engineering guidance
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases, technologies, and technical domains
- Collaborative approach and interest in helping teams adopt new technologies and ways of working
Sovos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sovos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sovos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited time off is broadly offered and stands out as a strong aspect of the package. While usage may depend on workload and manager norms, the breadth of the policy is clear.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is included, with examples of extended maternity and multi‑week leave for other parents. This support complements wider family‑oriented resources.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness resources, donation matching, volunteer time off, recognition programs, and structured development/mentorship are part of a broad offering. Remote/flexible work options and community perks further bolster everyday wellbeing.
Sovos Insights
What We Do
Sovos provides businesses with the confidence needed to navigate an increasingly regulated world. Offering a modern, IT driven response to compliance, Sovos’ solutions are scalable, reliable and secure and provide a great user experience. Sovos has more than 100,000 customers, including half the Fortune 500, as well as businesses of every size operating in more than 70 countries. The company’s cloud-based solutions integrate with a wide variety of business applications and government compliance processes. Sovos has employees throughout the Americas and Europe and is owned by Hg and TA Associates.
Why Work With Us
We are dedicated to being a place where people truly enjoy being. We promote internally and offer a variety of development programs internally. Tax and the regulatory compliance space is also an incredibly stable industry! It changes a lot (because, tax!) but it is never going away. It is always something businesses will have to do!
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