Principal Software Engineer

Overview: 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.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Studio team! Cvent Studio is a platform that enables event planners to create and set up virtual, hybrid, and webinar events. It allows users to produce broadcast-quality video content with features like one-click transitions, pre-planned segments, and built-in recording.

Cvent Studio also allows users to create fully branded presentations and control who and what is seen and heard. In This Role, You Will: Lead and mentor teams of dedicated engineers to build Internet-scale applications where performance, reliability, and scalability, are critical design goals - not after-thoughts.

Create beautiful, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using React, Redux, Webpack, and the rest of the rapidly advancing React ecosystem. Responsible for upholding technical rigor on their team Serve as a technical tiebreaker for all technical decisions on the team Provide mentorship and technical leadership to the engineers on your team Work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and Product Designer on breaking down problems into achievable chunks. Tech Stack Skills Web development with full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js React + Redux MongoDB for database storage (desirable but any NoSQL experience works) Circle CI for build/deploy (Jenkins or equivalent is fine too) AWS for infrastructure, Chime SDK, deploying services with ECS and Lambda.

Here's What You Need: The prerequisites for joining our development team are simple. We seek people who take ownership over the full scope of their product - design, development, and operations.

We are about empowering developers to apply what they do best to empower our users to plan and run great events. Developers who take initiative to find and solve problems thrive here. 10+ years of overall development experience, including at least two years of leading and mentoring other engineers Experience working with React/Node Experience working with FFmpeg or similar muxing application Experience in transcoding live video/audio for the purpose of streaming original content in real-time Experience with relational and document databases Bachelor's in Computer Science OR a related technical discipline. Equivalent experience will also be considered. Physical Demands