Engineering Manager

Overview

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and ~30,000 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.

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.

Cvent’s Event Cloud Registration platform is the backbone of how planners design, launch, and manage attendee experiences  Registration team owns the end‑to‑end attendee journey—from event creation and configuration through complex registration flows, payment processing, and attendee management. The team’s work touches every major product initiative in the planner ecosystem and directly shapes outcomes for thousands of events and millions of attendees worldwide.

This role will have a meaningful impact on Cvent’s most strategically important Registration initiatives, including an AI‑powered planner assistant, and next‑generation event creation experiences. These are high‑visibility projects that span multiple engineering teams and require a leader who can drive technical direction, align stakeholders, and ship at scale without sacrificing quality.

We’re looking for a hands‑on Engineering Manager to lead one or more Registration sprint teams—someone who combines strong people leadership with technical credibility. You will be accountable for team performance, predictable delivery, and the professional growth of your direct reports, while ensuring Registration gives planners a fast, intuitive, and reliable foundation to build world‑class events.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of autonomy, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear goals and expectations; run regular 1:1s; deliver timely, candid feedback; conduct performance reviews with no surprises; and build individualized career development plans.
• Support onboarding, training, and skill development aligned to engineering competencies and each engineer’s growth trajectory.
• Hire and retain strong talent; partner with recruiting to build an inclusive, high‑trust team where engineers are excited to do their best work.

• Partner with Architects and Tech Leads to drive sound technical decisions across a modern stack that includes Type Script/JavaScript, React, Java, REST/GraphQL APIs, and AWS cloud services.
• Own roadmap execution for your team’s area: define epics, scope work, set milestones, manage dependencies, and deliver on a predictable cadence.
• Champion high standards for design reviews, code reviews, automated testing,…