Software Backend Engineer III

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

Why Box needs you?

Our Warsaw office is an incredibly exciting addition to our EMEA expansion. We're already in the UK, France, and Germany, and the new Poland location is a global engineering and product development hub alongside our headquarters in Redwood City, California. Join our growing engineering teams in Warsaw as we expand by over 100 members in 2024! Depending on your skills, experience, and preferences, you’ll have the opportunity to join one of several teams to solve some of the toughest challenges as we build out the future of content management in the cloud. Your work will directly impact the productivity of millions of users at some of today’s most significant enterprises.

We are currently looking for the engineers for the following teams:

• The Content Capabilities team is a growing group on a mission to power the next 10x growth of the Box Content Cloud. We’re building innovative platform capabilities that help product teams and customers create smarter, more intuitive experiences for millions of users. We’ve just delivered our first features - unlocking new ways for people to collaborate - and we’re only getting started. With a strong roadmap ahead, this is an exciting time to join a small, talented, and fun team tackling some of the toughest backend challenges in the content management space.

• Relay team works together to delight our users by enabling them to automate routine tasks. Our products save users time and deliver results in consistent manner. As our team in Poland continues to grow and take on building new product, we are looking for a seasoned engineer who can own large components of the system and work independently. In this role, your work will impact millions of users, who use Relay to get their work done on a daily basis.

• The Shuttle team is building the next generation of content migration for Box - making it faster and easier for customers to move their content from on-prem systems and other cloud platforms into Box. It’s a key initiative that helps enterprises bring more of their content  and its value  into the Box ecosystem. We’re wrapping up a major architectural upgrade and shifting our focus to efficiency, speed, and scalability. As Box’s dedicated bulk migration tool, Shuttle doesn’t just move files, it brings all the valuable metadata and context that come with them, so customers can instantly tap into Box’s intelligent content management. We’re also expanding global support to ensure content lands exactly where customers need it, anywhere in the world.

• The Box Search team powers content discovery for millions of users and hundreds of billions of documents across Box. As customers store more and more content, Search has become the essential way for people to quickly find what they need to get work done, whether on web, mobile, desktop, or through our Search API. We’re now taking things to the next level with the Search Platform a powerful layer that enables internal teams to build new user experiences and features on top of our core Search capabilities. This means combining existing infrastructure with new, scalable services that make Search faster, smarter, and easier to integrate across Box products.

What you’ll do:

• Develop high-quality, scalable, and responsive software using modern technologies.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using industry best practices.
• Work effectively with Designers, Product Managers and cross-functional global teams to deliver to deliver the high quality software and seamless user experience.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and improve team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and debug software defects to ensure smooth functionality.
• Collaborate effectively in an Agile development environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Who you are: 

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in one ot the following programming languages such as Java, Python, Scala or PHP
• Familiarity with Node.js is a plus
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.
• Skilled in designing and developing APIs.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy high-quality software.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
• Passionate about new technologies with the capability to implement them in existing products.
• Demonstrates ownership mentality and strives for excellence in both technical work and team interactions.
• Proficient in English.

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 55% coding
• 10% documentation
• 20% bug fixes
• 15% meetings

Methodology:

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHubEntreprise 
• Version control system - GIT

BENEFITS
Check out the overview of the benefits and additional perks offered at Box.

Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture. Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.
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