Job Application for Senior Software Backend Engineer at Box

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia

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. 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 Intelligence team powers AI at Box, enhancing both new and existing products with cutting-edge AI capabilities. We integrate AI-driven solutions using top-tier providers and, as a platform team, equip ML engineers with the tools they need to efficiently run and evaluate experiments. Beyond AI, we maintain mission-critical, event-driven systems that track user activity.
Box Apps is an intelligent builder designed to empower businesses to create custom applications in hours instead of weeks. By combining content, metadata, workflows, and users, Box Apps allows teams to build tailored tools that enhance productivity across departments. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Box Apps makes it easy to create dynamic dashboards for tracking processes, managing metadata at scale, and extracting AI-driven insights. From automating document handling to launching workflows, Box Apps delivers streamlined solutions that keep information accurate, organized, and accessible - powering smarter, faster decision-making for the teams.

Your expertise is essential to our journey in shaping tomorrow's content management landscape!

Who you are:

6+ years of professional software development experience
Proficient in Java (preferred), PHP or Scala
You possess strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming
Assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner
Adapt to the technical and stylistic needs of integrations and projects as they occur; including technical tools, programming languages, technical limitations, and product requirements
Review and assess the technical feasibility of project requirements and propose innovative solutions
Be the technical expert and provide guidance to junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues
Must speak English proficiently

Preferred skills:

Experience with public cloud systems such as GCP, AWS or Azure
Experience contributing to open source project

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

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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays 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". For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice. For more details on how Box Poland protects your information, please see our Supplemental Personnel and Candidate Privacy Notice.

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