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Lever to ServiceNow integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Lever and ServiceNow in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Lever and ServiceNow

Keep the people, teams, and status that ServiceNow and Lever share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in ServiceNow keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Lever is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Problems, Service Catalog Requests, Configuration Items (CMDB), Users and Groups in ServiceNow with Offers, Users, Stages, Feedback in Lever bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Lever creates or updates the matching user in ServiceNow within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where ServiceNow captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Lever in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Create ServiceNow tickets automatically from CRM cases and sync status back as agents work them
  • 02 Bi-directional sync of incidents with engineering issue trackers so IT and engineering work the same ticket without re-keying
  • 03 When an Opportunity is marked hired, write the candidate and its Offer into an HRIS or onboarding system to start employee provisioning.
  • 04 Consolidate Feedback, Interviews, and Notes into a warehouse for interviewer scorecard and time-to-fill reporting.

Common sync patterns

Where ServiceNow routes or assigns work by person: assignments follow the org

When someone changes teams or managers in Lever, the queues, ownership, or approvals in ServiceNow update to match, so work reaches whoever holds the role now.

Onboarding: access ready on day one

A new hire recorded in Lever creates the matching user in ServiceNow with the right team and manager already set, so people can start working without waiting on a provisioning ticket.

Offboarding: no standing access after a departure

When someone is marked as leaving in Lever, the matching account in ServiceNow is deactivated or flagged, so departures do not leave open access behind.

What you can sync between Lever and ServiceNow

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Lever objects ServiceNow objects How this pairing syncs
Interviews Scheduled interview panel events with times and interviewers; read for scheduling reporting and time-to-hire metrics, and creatable via the panels endpoint. Custom Tables Scoped or u_-prefixed tables are addressable through the same Table API as standard ones. Interviews is specific to Lever and Custom Tables to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes and Contacts Free-text Notes on Opportunities plus the underlying Contact (person) that dedupes multiple Opportunities; notes are posted via POST /opportunities/:id/notes and contact-level tags, sources, and links can be added back for attribution. Incidents The core ITSM ticket; commonly synced with engineering trackers and CRMs. Notes and Contacts is specific to Lever and Incidents to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities The core pipeline record for a candidate applying to a role; replaced the deprecated Candidates endpoint. Created via POST /opportunities and updated (stage, archive, links, tags, sources, files) through the API, and synced two-way with a database or HRIS. Change Requests Track planned changes; synced to deployment and release tooling. Opportunities is specific to Lever and Change Requests to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Postings Job posting records with categories, apply URLs, workplace type, and requisition codes. Can be created via POST /postings and read into a warehouse for open-role reporting. Problems Root-cause records linked to incidents, useful in cross-system reporting. Postings is specific to Lever and Problems to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Requisitions Headcount/requisition records with custom requisition fields, tied to Postings; read via GET /requisitions and synced to an HRIS to reconcile approved headcount against open roles. Service Catalog Requests Requested items and approvals that often trigger provisioning in other systems. Requisitions is specific to Lever and Service Catalog Requests to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Offers Offer records attached to an Opportunity with status and offer-form fields; exposed read-only through GET /opportunities/:id/offers, so they sync outbound to an HRIS or onboarding system when a candidate reaches the offer stage. Configuration Items (CMDB) Asset and infrastructure records synced with discovery tools and asset databases. Offers is specific to Lever and Configuration Items (CMDB) to ServiceNow — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Lever and ServiceNow

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Lever ServiceNow Sub-second propagation

DetectionLever notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired,.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to ServiceNow through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

ServiceNow Lever Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls ServiceNow for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on sys_updated_on timestamps.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Lever through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Lever: 10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
  • ServiceNow: Subject to instance-level API rate limits and concurrency semaphores configured by administrators.
What ships with Lever ⇄ ServiceNow

Connect Lever and ServiceNow for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Lever–ServiceNow connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Lever or ServiceNow instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Lever or ServiceNow data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Lever or ServiceNow record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Lever ⇄ ServiceNow sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Lever and ServiceNow.

How the Lever and ServiceNow connectors work

Lever

Integration surface
REST Data API (api.lever.co/v1)
Authentication
API key over HTTP Basic auth (key as username, blank password) for internal integrations, or OAuth 2.0 with 1-hour access tokens for partner integrations (auth.lever.co)
Change detection
Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired, interview created/updated/deleted), plus incremental polling via created_at and updated_at range filters on Opportunities
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
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ServiceNow

Integration surface
REST API (Table, Import Set, and Aggregate APIs); SOAP remains for legacy integrations
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 or basic authentication against the instance
Change detection
Polling on sys_updated_on timestamps; instance admins can configure outbound push through business rules or Flow Designer
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to instance-level API rate limits and concurrency semaphores configured by administrators
How it works

How to connect Lever to ServiceNow — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Lever and ServiceNow with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Lever connected
    ServiceNow connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Lever and ServiceNow objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Lever ⇄ ServiceNow
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Lever ServiceNow
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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