Senior Software Engineer

ServiceNow • San Diego, CA

27d

About The Position

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone. The developer sandbox team is a platform group that is enabling development at scale on the ServiceNow AI Platform. Developer sandboxes allow for more developers to work in parallel and will help scale AI development on the platform. We partner deeply with product, other engineering teams, and customer-facing teams to build solutions that help our customers work better. As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will play a key role in translating product requirements, designing engineering solutions and prototyping, and delivering the implementation. Come join us if you thrive on solving difficult platform level integration and performance problems and want to enable development and AI agents at scale on the ServiceNow AI Platform. What you get to do in this role:

Requirements

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 4+ years of experience with Java or a similar OO language
• Passion for JavaScript and the Web as a platform, reusability, and componentization
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations
• Experience with any of the modern UI frameworks like Angular, React or Vue
• Analytical and design skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in databases such as MariaDB and Postgres is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
• Design and develop backend services in Java to extend the platform.
• Build with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Optimize database integrations for scalability, management, and access.
• Partner with peers and product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Coordinate with other engineering teams to ensure dependencies are fulfilled and integrations are designed and implemented in a scalable and extensible way.
• Ensure that our solutions are performant, identify and address performance issues.
• Help design and implementation of software that is simple to use, extensible, and meets customer requirements.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite
• Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Implement software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite
• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing

Benefits

• We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees