Software Engineer (San Diego Only)

🚀 Whova is seeking full-time Software Engineers! 🚀

As a member of our engineering team, you will tackle challenging problems of scale, reliability, and security while delivering a delightful, simple user experience to a global user base. Your code will reach over a million users, often within your first few weeks. You can join the front-end team to build and improve our mobile and web platforms, or the backend team to build and improve the backend services that power all Whova products. You will be paired with a senior engineer and ramp through structured onboarding, so you can grow quickly and contribute with confidence.

Whova is a fast-growing company with a top product in our space, supporting events in 100 countries. Our brand-name customers include US Bank, Stanford, L'Oreal, Hilton, LEGO, Microsoft, NASA, IKEA, TEDx, etc. We are proud to be recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in San Diego 🏖️ 5 years in a row, and also won the ⏫ Fastest Growing Private Companies award for 3 years. Recently Whova won the Event Technology Awards' Best Product Team Award 🏆, People's Choice Award 🏅 and also Best Event APP Award.

Watch this 2-min video to learn more about our culture: https://whova.com/jobs/we-are-hiring/

Job Responsibilities

• Build scalable front-end applications to support the growing needs of the business.
• Design, develop, and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing code reviews.
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate them into pragmatic and effective technical solutions.
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.

Job Qualifications

• A solid foundation in how computer systems work.
• Comfortable writing Python, or eager to learn it.
• Exposure to JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other front-end technologies.
• A good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and an interest in applying them to design pragmatic solutions.
• You find satisfaction in a job well done and enjoy solving head-scratching challenges.
• Ambitious and constantly striving for personal growth and development.

What You Will Gain

• 💰 Salary: $80K-$110K per year, based on experiences and skills in software development (front end (web/mobile), backend, full stack, database experiences, etc.)
• 🏖️ Health benefits package (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) after 6 months
• 🌴 18 days/year paid time off and sick leave, in addition to paid holidays
• 🍲 Two company-provided lunches each week, plus Bagel Wednesdays
• 🏋️ In-office gym
• 🏡 Working from home every Friday
• 📈 Clear path to mid-level and beyond, with fast-growing career potential
• ❤️ Fun, upbeat, and collaborative office environment