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’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.
Job Description:
Are you passionate about software?
Is coding as much art as it is science?
Do you like the challenge of building great products on the web, that are feature rich – but also easy to use?
Would you like to work in a collaborative environment where sharing knowledge and ideas is not only encouraged – but expected?
If you answered yes to all the above, then you belong at Cvent!
- This is a unique, full time opportunity for an individual, with hands-on development experience and good database knowledge, who is seeking new challenges.
- Work as a leading member of the Product Development team to manage the design, architecture, development and delivery of scalable, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.
- In this role you will work as a key member of the Product Development team to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.
Cvent’s Technology Team has a great opportunity for you to:
- Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability, scalability and security are critical design goals – not after-thoughts
- Create beautiful, interactive and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side code and MVC based server-side code.
- Learn the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications.
- Gain experience with different database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as Couchbase, AWS DynamoDB.
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications
Skills/Qualifications required are:
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 and must take pride in your designing, architecture, 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:
Primary Skills:
- 8 to 11 years of hands-on programming experience with Java including Object Oriented Design
- Experience with RESTful Architecture for Web Services and API development using Spring/Dropwizard or any other framework
- Proven track record 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 following databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies
- Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
- Excellent understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including problem solving
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture
- Strong influence in the team technical discussion and building team’s technical vision
- Proven track record to take project/initiative from scoping requirements through to launch
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
- Experience/knowledge into JavaScript + Angular/React Js/Typescript, Graph Query Language (GQL)
- Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr
- Experience working with AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers