Lead Software Engineer (Node)

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

• Provide technical leadership and mentor a team of engineers to build Internet-scale applications where performance, reliability, and scalability, are critical design goals - not after-thoughts
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to create solutions for our customers
• Create intuitive, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side and REST based server-side code using Node, React and Typescript/Javascript
• Implement the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications
• Use database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as AWS DynamoDB and Couchbase
• Work 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

You need to have a strong passion for software development and must take pride in designing 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:

Educational Qualifications / Background

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills
  
  

Primary Skills

• 7 to 9 years of Software Development experience in developing and shipping software
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture
• Hands-on programming experience with Node, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience with RESTful Web Services and API development
• 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 databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies
• Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
• Strong influence in technical discussions and building team’s technical vision
• Experience in leading an engineering team
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
• Experience/knowledge of React, Vue or Angular; Graph Query Language (GQL)
• Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud
• Experience using feature flags and trunk-based development