Senior ServiceNow Engineer – Remote, High-Impact Platform

First American; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

PTO / Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

First American is seeking a Senior ServiceNow Software Engineer to contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable, reliable ServiceNow-based solutions. The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, APIs, and platform strategy within a distributed, cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong architectural and mentoring abilities, and a track record of delivering high-quality software with observability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with large-scale distributed systems experience.
• Experience driving engineering best practices through automation and tooling.
• Building large-scale backend services and APIs using modern architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, asynchronous architectures, and distributed algorithms.
• Experience mentoring and training an engineering community on development best practices.
• Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies for cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Code, design, test, and deploy services that are scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant.
• Define long-term ServiceNow platform strategy and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with product management to shape roadmaps and features.
• Ensure solutions are secure, observable, and of high quality.
• Drive continuous improvement and share best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering fundamentals

Automation

Backend services

APIs

Cloud-native

Observability

Metrics-driven development

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

JavaScript

AngularJS

MySQL

REST APIs

HTML/CSS

Job description

First American is seeking a Senior ServiceNow Software Engineer to contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable, reliable ServiceNow-based solutions. The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, APIs, and platform strategy within a distributed, cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong architectural and mentoring abilities, and a track record of delivering high-quality software with observability and