Lead, Software Engineer (Javascript/Java) at Cvent

Draper, UT 84020

About the Job

Cvent is an exciting, fast-growing tech company that provides industry-leading software to more than 300,000 event professionals and hoteliers around the world. The economic significance of our industry is undeniable: Meetings and events boost the global GDP by more than $1.5 trillion and impact nearly 26 million jobs; and for more than 20 years, Cvent has led the transformation of our industry with our market-leading technology.

We are looking for experienced Lead, software developers to join our rapidly growing team – especially those who are passionate about architecting solutions to make software more secure, more scalable, and easier to deploy. Cvent’s Technology Team is responsible for the design, development, and operation of the company’s suite of cloud-based software products. We are currently engaged in a major initiative to build our next generation software platform, utilizing the most cutting-edge tools and technologies.

Are we right for you?

What You Will Be Doing

Spec, design, develop, and debug scalable and high-performance, service-based web applications
Play a leading role in supporting and enhancing the architecture and the framework of Cvent applications
Help define technical solutions and a unified framework from the design and architecture through development, testing, and release
Help guide the technology directions by recommending specific technologies to pursue, suggesting training and staff development activities
Identify and address technical debt as our applications evolve
Evaluate and prototype POC using the best technologies for the job
Conduct performance-testing by using application profiler and load-testing tools
Define and implement automated build, deployment, and testing procedures
Identify and resolve potential application security vulnerabilities
Improve system scalability and application isolation

What You Need for this Position

Lead a team of professional software engineers supporting our Top of the line Conference product
Hands-on experience designing building an implementing highly scalable RESTful APIs
Very experienced with any of the following languages for both front and backend: Java, React.JS, Node.JS, Python, C#, Ruby, PHP, C++, Scala
80%+ hands-on coding on a day to day basis
8+ Years’ experience with back-end development and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, etc.)
Experience with using Amazon AWS
Expertise in open source technologies and NoSQL DB technology such as Couchbase, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.
Strong knowledge of application-profiling and performance-tuning
Strong understanding of internet security
Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility and limitation issues
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical degree

At Cvent we celebrate, support and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

Cvent maintains a drug-free workplace.

Job summary

About this company

Cvent

Cvent, Inc. (www.cvent.com) is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based software for meetings and event management. Lanyon has just recently merged with Cvent to become the market leader in our space. Cvent is an exciting, fast-growing tech company that provides industry-leading software to event professionals around the world. Our suite of services – online event registration, venue selection, mobile apps, email marketing, web surveys, and targeted hotel advertising opportunities – have positioned us a major player in the estimated $565 billion global meetings and events industry. Having over 2600 talented and dedicated employees, we are headquartered just outside of Washington, D.C., in McLean, Virginia, with additional U.S. offices in Portland, Austin, Dallas, Draper, Atlanta, and LA. Internationally we have offices in New Delhi, India, London, England, and Fredericton, CA. Cvent has received a number of awards and honors recognizing our strong company culture, innovative products, stellar customer service and support, visionary leadership and investment in our employees. We currently have job openings across all departments and locations and are looking to add valuable team members to further strengthen the company’s DNA.