Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

Our Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 6,000+ employees and 34,000+ 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.

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Cvent Event Diagramming team, formerly Social Tables. This platform helps planners, venues, and event stakeholders collaborate to design event spaces, create accurate to-scale layouts, manage seating, and visualize events through interactive floor plans and photo-realistic 3D experiences.

In This Role, You Will:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will remain hands-on while taking broader ownership for technical outcomes across the team. You will drive technical design and implementation for complex initiatives, coordinate execution across engineers, and maintain a high bar for quality, reliability, and operability. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving challenging frontend and product engineering problems, mentoring others, and delivering rich, collaborative experiences at scale across a modern web environment that includes TypeScript/JavaScript, React, APIs, and cloud-native services.

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of complex features and services across the Event Diagramming platform.
• Own technical decisions for major initiatives and balance tradeoffs between speed, quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build intuitive, high-impact experiences for planners and venues.
• Drive execution across a team or significant initiative while helping remove blockers and align stakeholders.
• Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing, reliability, and developer experience.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Identify technical risks early, improve engineering processes, and help shape longer-term architectural direction.
• Contribute to hiring and help raise the engineering bar across the organization.

Here's What You Need:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong experience building and scaling modern web applications, with particular strength in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, rich interactive UI development, API integration, and cloud-native services.
• Proven ability to lead delivery of complex initiatives across multiple contributors.
• Excellent software design, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams and functions.
• A passion for mentoring engineers and improving team effectiveness.
• Experience working in Agile, team-based development environments.
• A customer-focused mindset and an interest in building products that simplify event planning and venue collaboration.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have:

• Experience with diagramming, design, visualization, collaboration, or workflow-driven SaaS products.
• Experience with real-time collaboration features, rich interactive UIs, or 3D/visual rendering workflows.
• Experience integrating product experiences across a broader event technology ecosystem.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, testing strategy, observability, and operational excellence.

Event Diagramming is a collaborative event design platform that empowers planners and venues to bring events to life through automation, real-time collaboration, and immersive visualization. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to shape a product that helps customers manage space more effectively, improve communication, and deliver better event experiences at scale.

This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, this information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly.

The estimated base salary range for new hires into this role is $130,000 - $170,000 annually +  bonus depending on factors such as job-related knowledge, relevant experience, and location. We also offer a competitive benefits package, details of which can be found here.

Hybrid: 2 days in office 

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position

Physical Demands