Lead Frontend Engineer

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.

In This Role, You Will:

• Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, accessibility, 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
• Willing to learn and work on React.js, TypeScript to build responsive User Interfaces (UI)
• Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (Saas) based applications

Here's What You Need:

Primary Skills:

• 7 to 9 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 React, TypeScript, Node.js
• Experience with RESTful Web Services and GraphQL
• Experience in contributing to the architecture and design (Design Patterns, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including Performance, Accessibility, Scalability, Reliability, Security)
• Experience with PostgreSQL, or related databases is a plus
• Strong influence in technical discussions and building team’s technical vision
• Experience in leading an engineering team

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
• Experience/knowledge into JavaScript / TypeScript + React, GraphQL, Node.js
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud