Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

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.

1. Design solutions to complex problems, that are flexible, robust, and take into account business needs.
2. Work with AWS cloud native technologies to evolve an existing PHP stack 
3. Work with both modern React FE but also legacy systems using technologies like Backbone, jQuery, and PHP.
4. Collaborate with your Scrum Team in scoping, estimating, implementing, and testing new features and fixes.
5. Be communicative and reliable, so that others can depend on you.
6. Delivery of features, improvements, and fixes in a timely, predictable cadence.
7. Mentor other engineers on good practices, technologies, and patterns.
8. Show up as a team member, encouraging others through example in collaboration, productivity, effective communication, and love for details
9. Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (Saas) based applications

Primary Skills:

1. Proficiency with PHP
2. Experience developing with React as part of a team.
3. Excellent troubleshooting skills.
4. Experience prototyping quickly when needed.
5. 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
6. Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment and result-oriented culture
7. Experience working with distributed or fully remote teams.
8. Fluent in written and spoken English.
9. Experience with AWS CDK and Terraform
    

Preferred Skills:

1. Experience presenting ideas, techniques, or approaches to other team members
2. Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems