Senior Software Engineer (Java)

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Overview

Our Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000+ employees and 24,000+ customers worldwide, including 60% 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.

Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.

AI at Cvent: Leading the Future

Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation At Cvent, we're committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn't just a tool for us, it's part of our DNA. We're looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you'll thrive here. Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.

Throughout our interview process, you'll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you're excited to be part of a team that's leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we'd love to meet you.

About the role

Are you passionate about software

Is coding as much art as it is science for you

Do you like the challenge of building great products for the web, that are not only feature rich — but also easy to use

Are you excited about using AI tools to improve the way software is designed, built, tested and supported

Would you like to be part of a team that is actively adopting AI-assisted engineering practices to build better products, faster

Would you like to work in a collaborative environment where sharing knowledge and ideas is not only encouraged — but expected

If you answered yes to all the above, then Cvent is the place for you!

This is a unique, full-time opportunity for an individual, with hands-on development experience, who is seeking new challenges. In this role you will work as a key member of the Product Development team to design, develop and deliver large scale, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.

What You Will Be Doing

1. Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability, scalability and security are critical design goals — not after-thoughts.
2. Create intuitive, interactive and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side and REST based server-side code.
3. Implement the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications.
4. Gain experience with different database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as Couchbase, AWS DynamoDB.
5. Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications
6. Use AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity across design, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and operational troubleshooting.
7. Identify and implement opportunities to automate repetitive engineering workflows using AI-powered tools and intelligent developer workflows.
8. Evaluate AI-generated outputs critically and ensure production code meets standards for correctness, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
9. Partner with team members to adopt practical AI-enabled engineering practices that improve development velocity and code quality.

What You Will Need for this Position

You need to have a strong passion for software development and must take pride in designing and coding. You should also have great analytical skills and ability to handle complex, modular software development in a collaborative team-based environment.

In addition to this, you will have a leg up if you also meet the following criteria:

Educational Qualifications / Background:

1. Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
2. Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills

Primary Skills:

1. 4 to 7 years of Software Development experience in developing and shipping software Excellent troubleshooting skills
2. Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture
3. Hands-on programming experience with Java including Object Oriented Design
4. Experience with RESTful Web Services and API development using Spring/Dropwizard or any other framework
5. Experience in contributing to the architecture and design (Design Patterns, Non-Functional

Requirements (NFRs) including Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Security)

1. Experience with one or more of the databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle,

Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies

1. Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
2. Hands-on experience using AI-assisted software development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or developer workflow automation.
3. Strong understanding of how to safely and effectively apply AI in software engineering workflows, with sound judgment on validation, correctness, security, and privacy.
4. Ability to improve engineering efficiency by applying AI tools and automation in day-to-day backend development.

Preferred Skills:

1. Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
2. Experience/knowledge into JavaScript + Angular/React Js/Typescript, Graph Query Language (GQL)
3. Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr
4. Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud
5. Experience building or integrating AI-enabled capabilities, intelligent workflows, or automation features into backend systems.
6. Exposure to prompt design, evaluation of AI outputs, and responsible usage practices in enterprise software environments.
7. Experience using AI to improve engineering productivity in agile product development teams.