Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees

and nearly 22,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event

marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels,

special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship --a system

that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take

action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. We foster an

environment that promotes agility, which means we don’t have the luxury to wait for perfection. At Cvent,

we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues

or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared

connections.

In This Role, You Will

• Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability, scalability and security are critical
  
  

design goals - not after-thoughts

• Create beautiful, interactive and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side code and
  
  

MVC based server-side code.

• Learn the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and
  
  

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications.

• Gain experience with different database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as Couchbase, AWS DynamoDB.
• Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications
  
  

Here's What You Need

The prerequisites for joining our development team are simple. We care more about your attitude and aptitude than the specific tools and technologies you have used in the past. You need to have a strong passion for software development and must take pride in your designing, architecture, and coding. You should also have great analytical skills and ability to handle complex, modular software development in a collaborative team-based environment.

In addition to this, you will have a leg up if you also meet the following criteria:

Primary Skills

• 7 to 9 years of hands-on programming experience with Java including Object Oriented Design
• Experience with RESTful Architecture for Web Services and API development using Spring/Dropwizard or any other framework
• Experience in contributing to the architecture and design (design patterns, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Security)
• Experience with one or more of the following databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies
• Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture
• Strong influence in the team technical discussion and building team’s technical vision
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
• Experience/knowledge into JavaScript + Angular/React Js/Typescript, Graph Query Language (GQL)
• Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr
• Experience working with AWS / GCP / Azure Cloud