Senior Software Engineer

ServiceNow • San Diego, CA

27d

About The Position

The UX Engineering team at ServiceNow is expanding and looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help build and evolve our low-code UX Framework. This platform empowers customers to rapidly create robust, scalable, and engaging user interfaces with minimal hand-coding, enabling seamless experiences across the Now Platform. In this role, you'll be a key technical leader driving the architecture and implementation of our metadata-driven UX framework. Your work will span core areas such as reusable UI component modeling, metadata-based screen rendering, routing, design-time schema definitions, runtime data binding and execution, and intelligent caching strategies. You'll collaborate closely with other platform and application engineering, UX, and product teams to deliver performant and extensible solutions. A growing area of focus is the integration of AI-powered frameworks to accelerate UI development. You'll contribute to initiatives that leverage generative AI to automate UI composition, enabling dynamic, context-aware interface generation that enhances developer productivity and end-user experience.

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
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Selenium, TestNG) and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding software quality principles including reliability, observability, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
• 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

• health plans, including flexible spending accounts
• a 401(k) Plan with company match
• ESPP
• matching donations
• a flexible time away plan
• 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