Staff Software Engineer - Java Backend Developer

Summary

Join ServiceNow, a global leader in AI-enhanced technology, and build high-quality, scalable, and reusable code. Collaborate with product owners, design user-friendly software, and contribute to new product development. Enhance existing products, mentor colleagues, and leverage your expertise in AI integration and productivity tools. This role requires extensive experience in Java or similar OO languages, JavaScript, and modern UI frameworks. You will manage projects with technical risk and demonstrate strong analytical and design skills.

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
• 10 to 15 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
• Ability to manage projects with material technical risk at a team level

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
• Design 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in using AI Productivity tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, etc. is a plus or nice to have