Staff Front End Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

What We Are Looking For:

You have strong front-end JavaScript experience and are passionate about creating excellent user experiences. You are excited about exploring new front-end technologies and eager to push the boundaries of what is possible. You thrive on challenges and opportunities, bringing new ideas and innovative solutions to the table. You are enthusiastic about working with the latest technologies, such as React, Redux, and GraphQL. You are a collaborative team member, working with experienced colleagues to help evolve the technology stack and build modern, exceptional user experiences for our customers. You have a solid understanding of how to build performant, scalable user interfaces, with a keen attention to design aesthetics and engineering excellence.

What You Will Do in This Role:

As a Staff Engineer on the UX Engineering Platform team, you will work with a talented group of developers to build next-generation technologies on the ServiceNow cloud platform. This team is responsible for the innovation, features, and architecture that make ServiceNow a powerful platform used by many Fortune 500 companies. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies such as mobile development, UI component libraries, predictive intelligence, workflow & automation, and developer tools & IDEs.

• You will directly impact our customers' productivity by building features that enable them to work more efficiently.
• You will engineer highly interactive, scalable web-based application UIs that can handle complex application requirements.
• You will leverage your experience with modern web experiences, performance optimization, architecture, and object-oriented design to push the boundaries of our platform.
• You will improve existing user interfaces to enhance interactivity, intuitiveness, performance, and overall user satisfaction.
• You will create tools, libraries, and frameworks to enable other developers to build upon.
• You will collaborate with teams across the organization to streamline application development and deployment.
• You will work closely with UX designers and back-end developers (services and database teams) to ensure seamless integration and interactivity—or take a full-stack approach and use our platform to build the back-end services and data models you need.
• You will apply new technologies and innovations to enhance the functionality of the platform.
• You will help deliver an outstanding experience for our customers.
• You will be part of a team that is leading the evolution of our platform’s user interfaces.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• 6-8+ years of experience in the software industry
• A passion for software development and problem solving
• Experience designing and implementing highly interactive user interfaces for high-traffic web applications
• Proficiency with JavaScript libraries such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, React, Node.js, jQuery, and Prototype
• Familiarity with technologies like AJAX, JSON, HTML, XML, CSS, SOAP, REST, and their associated frameworks
• Experience with Java or another object-oriented programming language
• Experience with relational databases and SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with open-source technologies like Linux, Apache/Tomcat, and MySQL
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (optional but preferred)

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Not sure if you meet every qualification? We still encourage you to apply! We value inclusivity, welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds, including non-traditional paths. Unique experiences enrich our team, and the willingness to dream big makes you an exceptional candidate!

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $147,300 - $257,800, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary ba