Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Bangalore)

Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,700 employees and nearly 21,000 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.

• Define, code, test and deploy new features with an emphasis on extensibility and performance.
• Utilize the latest techniques in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript (ReactJS/Angular) to design and develop user interfaces and experiences for our customers
• Work cross functionally with the Product Management, UX Design, Engineering and Quality Assurance teams
• Ensure best development practices, participate in code reviews, and strive to innovate in UI development
• Work independently on deliverables but also participate in a very collaborative environment with teammates from various backgrounds coming together to solve challenging problems as a team. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important

• 4 to 7 years’ work experience and a 4-year Engineering degree required.
• Must have experience working in an agile software development environment.
• Excellent knowledge of hand coded HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Hands-on experience working with Object Oriented JavaScript (OOJS), JavaScript libraries and their practical uses in building complex interactive experiences
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Experience delivering code using TDD and Unit testing
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript (ES6, 2015, 2017)
• Proficient to Advanced understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Strong knowledge of web standards
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required as you will be coordinating with a myriad of stakeholders including, UX Design and UI Development team members, Product Management, Engineers and QA.