Software Engineer

Whova is seeking one full-time Software Engineer! As a member of our engineering team, you will tackle challenging issues of scale, reliability, and security while delivering a delightful, simple user experience to a global user base. You can either join the front end team for building and improving the mobile and web platforms or the backend team for building and improving the backend services across all Whova products.


Whova provides an all-in-one event management solutions including a mobile event app to support conferences, expos, tradeshows, networking and business events. Whova is a fast-growing company with customers in more than 100 countries.

Whova is proud to be a winner of the San Diego Business Journal’s the Best Places to Work in San Diego in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 four years in a row.

Responsibilities & Requirements:
- Build scalable front-end applications to support the growing needs of the business
- Design, develop and deploy backend services with the 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 then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
- Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

Desired Skills & Experience
- You have 2-5 years of recent hands-on coding and software design experience
- You have a deep understanding of how the computer system works
- You are comfortable writing Python
- Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other front-end technologies
- You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
- You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges