Cvent - Engineering/Senior Engineering Manager

Cvent, Inc. (www.cvent.com) is the world's leading provider of cloud-based software for meetings and event management. Our platform of products includes software to manage and facilitate online event registration, meeting site selection, event management, e-mail marketing and web surveys. We also develop mobile apps for both corporate and consumer events. Founded in 1999, we currently have 2800+ talented and dedicated employees and are headquartered just outside of Washington, D.C., in McLean, Virginia, with additional U.S. offices in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. Internationally we have offices in New Delhi, India, and London, England. Cvent has received a number of awards and honors recognizing our strong company culture, innovative products, stellar customer service and support, visionary leadership and investment in our employees. We currently have job openings across all departments and locations and are looking to add valuable team members to further strengthen the company's DNA

Job Description

The Senior Software Development Manager is responsible for managing the specifications, design, and development of large-scale, Internet-based applications. In this role you will work as a leading member of the Product Development team to manage the delivery of scalable, high-performance solutions for transaction-intensive web applications and services.

Position Duties

- Manage Specification, design, development, code reviews design review and debugging of scalable and high-performance service-based web applications

- Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels

- Manage and/or mentor junior and senior team members of development team

- Spearhead evaluation and research of latest technologies and actively participate in architectural decisions

- Coordinate application development projects and production issues with Product Management, Quality Engineering, and Application Support teams

- Review work of development team to ensure coding standards and best practices are being followed. Also, ensures applications meet performance and security requirements

- Help continuously improve the software development life cycle processes used

- Assist in recruiting efforts for development as well as other teams in the Technology department

- Give performance evaluations and reviews to supervised employees

- Provide technical guidelines for design and development when needed

- Performance evaluations and reviews with supervised employees

- Make decisions that help to evolve the existing software system applications and architecture in various areas as needed.

Candidate Requirements:

- 10+ years of relevant software development and/or project management experience, in a professional environment

- At least 5 years of management/leadership experience in a global software development organization

- Prior hands-on experience working through the design, development and release cycle delivering software to market

- Experience understanding business strategy and how it aligns with technology

- Strong understanding of the software development cycle

- Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem solving skills

- Experience solving complex and large-scale software problems

- A willingness to dive into software environments and technical issues as part of maintaining the skills necessary to manage and advocate products and projects

- Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to get things done

- Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must

- Excellent oral and written communication skills to interact with all levels in the organization

- Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-changing entrepreneurial environment