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.
Cvent is a global meeting, event, travel, and hospitality technology leader, with more than 4300+ employees worldwide. As a leading cloud-based technology company, we have over 28,000+ customers, including 80% of the Fortune 100 companies, in more than 100 countries.
Cvent’s software solutions optimize the entire event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage hundreds of thousands of meetings and events. In addition to helping event planners navigate every aspect of the event process, we also provide an integrated platform to hoteliers to help create qualified demand for their hotels, manage that demand more efficiently, and measure their business performance in real-time.
About the role:
The Engineering Manager is responsible for managing the specifications, design, and development of large-scale, Internet-based applications. In this role you will work as a leading member of the Product Development team to manage the delivery of scalable, high-performance solutions for transaction intensive web applications and services.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Manage Specification, design, development, code reviews design review and debugging of scalable and high-performance service-based web applications
- Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels
- Manage and/or mentor junior and senior team members of development team
- Spearhead evaluation and research of latest technologies and actively participate in architectural decisions
- Coordinate application development projects and production issues with Product Management, Quality Engineering, and Application Support teams
- Review work of development team to ensure coding standards and best practices are being followed. Also, ensures applications meet performance and security requirements
- Help continuously improve the software development life cycle processes used
- Assist in recruiting efforts for development as well as other teams in the Technology department
- Give performance evaluations and reviews to supervised employees
- Provide technical guidelines for design and development when needed
- Performance evaluations and reviews with supervised employees
- Make decisions that help to evolve the existing software system applications and architecture in various areas as needed.
What You Will Need for this Position:
- B. Tech/B.E. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 10+ years of relevant software development and/or project management experience, in a
- professional environment
- At least 2-3 years of management/leadership experience in a global software development organization
- Prior hands-on experience working through the design, development and release cycle delivering software to market
- Experience understanding business strategy and how it aligns with technology
- Strong understanding of the software development cycle
- Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem-solving skills
- Experience solving complex and large-scale software problems
- A willingness to dive into software environments and technical issues as part of maintaining the skills necessary to manage and advocate products and projects
- Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to get things done
- Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must
- Excellent oral and written communication skills to interact with all levels in the organization
- Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast changing entrepreneurial environment