Junior Software Developer

Job#: 3041188

Job Description:

Software Developer (Contract – 6 to 8 Months)

Role Summary

Our client is seeking a Developer to support ongoing UDG and ServiceNow-related initiatives. This role is ideal for a strong Software Developer with a solid coding background rather than a traditional ServiceNow-only developer. The team has found the most success training strong developers on ServiceNow, rather than hiring ServiceNow specialists without deep programming expertise. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]

The developer will work closely with technical leads and project stakeholders, contributing to both front-end and back-end development efforts while learning and expanding their ServiceNow platform knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• Object-Oriented Programming experience
• Adam said:
• “Object-oriented programming experience would be a hard requirement, meaning that they need to know how to code in some language.” [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Ability to code in a modern programming language
• Adam explained that OOP means they need to know how to code “in some language,” and said most modern languages would apply, with the exception of older examples like COBOL. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• JavaScript experience
• Adam said they will likely end up with someone who has JavaScript experience. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Coding background
• Adam said the team finds the most success with people who “just come with the coding background” and then learn ServiceNow. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]

Preferred Qualifications

• experience
• Adam specifically said JavaScript experience with would be nice and explained that is the runtime engine for JavaScript on the server side. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• React experience
• Adam specifically mentioned React as one of the technologies he would hope to see. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Vue, React, or Angular experience
• Adam said seeing Vue, React, or Angular shows him that the candidate has front-end experience. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Front-end experience
• Adam said Vue, React, or Angular would indicate front-end experience. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Back-end experience
• Adam said he is hoping for JavaScript experience with , and described as server-side JavaScript. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• ServiceNow experience is not required
• Adam said the team can train the person on the ServiceNow stuff. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]

What Makes a Strong Candidate

The ideal candidate:

• Has a real coding background. Adam said the team finds the most success with people who come from a coding background and then learn ServiceNow. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Has JavaScript experience. Adam said they will likely end up with someone who has JavaScript experience. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Ideally has or React experience. Adam specifically said, “hopefully with like Node or React.” [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• May have front-end experience with Vue, React, or Angular. Adam said those technologies show him that someone has front-end experience. [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]
• Can be trained on ServiceNow. Adam said, “We’ll train them up on the ServiceNow stuff.

Experience Level

• No hard “years of experience” number was locked in.
• The client wants to see what the market looks like first and evaluate profiles case by case. [Apex (1) | Word]
• Flexibility exists as long as the technical foundation is strong.

Location

• Strong preference for local candidates in Cleveland, OH
• Candidates in Buffalo, NY will also be considered

Adam said:

"Unless you find a diamond in the rough, we're going to end up with somebody that has JavaScript experience, hopefully with Node or React... We'll train them up on the ServiceNow stuff." [Apex Syste...- Cadence | Word]

And then he doubled down by saying:

"We seem to find the most success in the people that just come with the coding background and we teach them ServiceNow versus the other way around."

F/U RR CONFIRMED: 7/22 @11:30am.

Change order to existing SOW

Rate: Bill Rate: 90/hr Pay rate: 40-50/hr

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