Senior Software Engineer, Notes

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:
At Box, we are seeking a talented Backend Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in the maintenance and development of Box Notes, our collaborative note-taking and real-time editing tool. As a Backend Engineer, your expertise will be essential in driving the success of Box Notes and ensuring it continues to meet the evolving needs of our users. You’ll be involved in initiatives aimed at transforming our codebase and the overall app and you’ll be successful thanks to what you bring.
 
Legacy Code Transformation: We need your ability to re-think, re-architecture, and refactor the legacy components of our codebase, ensuring that Box Notes remains efficient, scalable, and adaptable.
Collaborative Mindset: Your strong teamwork and leadership qualities will enable you to collaborate effectively with fellow architects and your team, fostering discussions and proposing innovative solutions to technical challenges.
Quality-Driven Approach: We value your commitment to maintaining high-quality standards while managing efficient development timelines, ensuring that our users get the best possible experience.

What you’ll do:

- Lead large-scale projects to completion, from requirements gathering to deployment, while fostering Box culture and representing Box Poland internally and externally.
- Collaborate with the team to assess, align, and plan the re-architecture of any components in Note that do not meet Box's overall engineering standards. Ensure that the re-architecture enables safe, efficient, and maintainable development of high-quality features, in order to improve user and developer experience.
- Manage and maintain substantial portions of legacy code on both the frontend and backend.
- Take part in daily stand-ups, sprint review/retrospectives, planning sessions, team meetings, and one-on-one meetings with the manager.
- Participate in production on-call rotation with your team members

Who you are:

- You have 6+ years of professional software development experience
- You are skilled in Node.js and ideally have worked with Java as well.
- You have expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, as well as experience in test automation.
- Experience in test automation
- You are the technical expert and provide guidance to your team on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues.
- Assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner
- You have experience working with legacy codebases and tightly-coupled systems (we’re now in the process of decoupling/refactoring it) —in fact, you thrive on the excitement and extra challenges they bring to the table!
- Your English language skills are excellent, allowing for seamless brainstorming sessions together.
- You're on a mission to solve problems, regardless of the technology involved. Many of the challenges we encounter demand a "software engineer" mindset, transcending the typical frontend/backend developer approach.
- Collaboration is key for you as you thrive on being part of a high-performing team that tackles epic projects. You are ready to collaborate with partner teams and domain architects to design systems and integrate services seamlessly.
- Your focus is on designing and implementing scalable services that prioritize reliability, observability, operability, and efficiency.

Requirements that are Welcome:

- Experience with public cloud systems such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Istio, ZooKeeper
- Experience in frontend development

Percentage of Time Spent:

- 60% coding
- 10% documentation
- 20% bug fixes
- 10% meetings

Methodology:

- Agile management - Scrum
- Issue tracking tool - Jira
- Knowledge repository - GitHub Enterprise
- Code reviews - GitHub Entreprise 
- 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.

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