Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues, and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

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. 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.

Senior Software Engineer (Java)

This is a unique, full-time opportunity for an individual, with hands-on development experience, who is seeking new challenges. In this role you will work as a key member of the Product Development team to design, develop and deliver large scale, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability, scalability and security are critical design goals – not after-thoughts.
• Create intuitive, interactive and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side and REST based server-side code.
• Implement 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.

What You Will Need for this Position:

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.

Primary Skills:

• 4 to 7 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 Java including Object Oriented Design
• Experience with RESTful Web Services and API development using Spring/Dropwizard or any other framework
• 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 RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
• 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 with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud

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