Lead Software Engineer (API Platform)

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection. 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. 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.

• API Framework and Tool Development:
• Design, develop, and maintain the core framework and tools that support our API program.
• Ensure the framework is scalable, secure, and efficient to meet the needs of our growing platform.
• API Governance:
• Define and implement API governance standards to ensure consistency, quality, and security across all APIs.
• Develop tools and processes to automate and enforce these standards.
• Developer Portal and Experience:
• Build and enhance our public-facing developer portal to provide a seamless and intuitive experience for external developers.
• Create comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and guides to assist developers in effectively using our APIs.
• Creating our public facing client SDKs.
• Working on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability and scalability, are critical design goals - not after-thoughts.
• Learning the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture and building robust RESTful APIs.
• Contribute to the success of others by providing mentorship and guidance

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, good API design, and must take pride in your coding. Strong analytical skills are essential, as well as the ability to handle complex, modular software development in a collaborative team-based environment.

For this specific position, you will have a leg up if you also meet the following criteria:

• 7-9 years of overall development experience which ideally includes working with an object-oriented language (Java)
• Experience with using and implementing RESTful APIs with a solid understanding of OpenAPI and JSONSchema.
• Experience with Facebook’s React and the Next.js framework would be a big plus.
• Experience with one or more of the following databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Couchbase, MongoDB, Redis or other NoSQL technologies
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science OR a related technical discipline. Equivalent experience will also be considered.
• Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Any experience working on a public AWS platform or working with Docker containers would make a candidate stand out.