Software Engineer I

About the Role

As a Software Engineer I at Cvent, you will build and ship features for web applications used by event professionals worldwide. You will work in an agile team alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and designers, with the support to grow your technical depth and take ownership of your work.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test responsive, accessible, user-friendly web applications using modern front-end frameworks and libraries.
• Develop new features and integrate them with Cvent’s cloud-based platform and services.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Investigate, debug, and resolve software issues, and help improve reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with other product teams across the Cvent suite to ensure systems integrate and work together smoothly.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and help improve team engineering practices.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to boost productivity and code quality.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building software applications through professional work, internships, or substantial project work.
• Working knowledge of SQL, including writing queries and stored procedures (T-SQL a plus).
• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful web services (JSON).
• Foundation in object-oriented programming; Java preferred.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Understanding of build and CI/CD tools such as Gradle, Maven, or Jenkins.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, preferably AWS (CloudFront a plus).
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative, curious mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience with GraphQL APIs (Nice to Have).
• Experience with a modern front-end framework (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue) and TypeScript (Nice to Have).
• Familiarity with automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) (Nice to Have).
• Exposure to enterprise SDLC and agile/Scrum environments (Nice to Have).