Engineering Manager

Cvent is a leading technology provider for meetings, events and hospitality services, with 4,800+ employees, 22,000+ customers worldwide, and 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, we offer a comprehensive platform for event marketing and management, and software solutions to grow corporate travel business. Cvent's innovative technology brings millions of people together at events worldwide. At Cvent, we foster intrapreneurship and encourage employees to think like entrepreneurs. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences while building connections with colleagues and clients.

About the role:

The Engineering Manager oversees the specifications, design, development, and deployment of large-scale, high-performing internet-based applications. As a key member of the high performant Product Development team, you will manage the delivery of scalable, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage specifications, design, development, code reviews, deployment, and troubleshooting of scalable and high-performance web applications.

• Advocate for software design best practices and recommend frameworks and design patterns.

• Lead technical design discussions and provide suggestions to mitigate any impact.

• Make decisions to evolve software applications and architectures as needed.

• Review work of development team to ensure coding standards and best practices are being followed. Also, ensures applications meet Non-Functional requirements (Security, Scalability, Resiliency, Accessibility, and Performance)

• Provide leadership, and support to coach, motivate, and lead high performing team.

• Guide supervised employees in setting goals, provide feedback, and conduct performance evaluations.

• Encourage and support the training and upskilling of team members.

• Continuously improve the Software Development processes.

• Coordinate development projects and production issues with cross-functional teams.

• Report team status to stakeholders and seek feedback for improvement.

• Assist in recruiting efforts for development teams.

What You Will Need for this Position:

• 12+ years of relevant Software Development experience in developing and shipping software.

• 3+ years of management/leadership experience in a global software development organization.

• Hands-on experience in the design, development, and release cycle of software.

• Experience with Microservices, Event-driven and Service-Oriented Architecture and cloud computing platforms (AWS/Azure)

• Proficient in Java programming experience, Object Oriented Design, and working experience with Databases (Relational/No-SQL) and Queuing Technologies (Rabbit MQ/Kafka)

• Experience understanding business strategy and its alignment with technology.

• Strong understanding of the software engineering practices and patterns for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations.

• Ability to influence technical discussions and building team’s technical vision.

• Strong Leadership, project management, time-management, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience of partnering with product and program management teams.

• Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven track record of forming, mentoring, and growing strong engineering teams.

• Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, result-oriented and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective.

• Preferred experience with JavaScript + Angular/React Js/Typescript, Graph Query Language (GQL).

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills