Senior Software Engineer, Box Extract

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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in the development of Box Extract, a key component that will enable businesses to automate data extraction from documents, improve workflows with intelligent metadata extraction and categorization, and enhance compliance and data management efficiency. At Extract, we aim to empower our users to gain deeper insights from their content, automate routine tasks to save time and reduce errors, and ultimately build smarter, more scalable workflows.

As part of this team, your mission will be to ensure that the metadata extractor is designed with the best architecture and security standards in mind. Your focus will be on ensuring that the system is flexible enough to guarantee seamless integration of its capabilities into the Box platform, complementing existing tools for secure collaboration, content management, and workflow automation.

The work you do will have an immediate and lasting impact on the productivity of millions of users at some of the most significant enterprises of our time.

What you'll do:

• Lead design and implementation efforts for the components of our app, from the ground up
• Collaborate with partner teams and domain architects on system design and services integration, with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency
• Collaborate with Core Platform teams
• Collaborate with other engineers and contribute to team growth and development
• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection
• Be involved in defining the vision and assembling feature roadmaps
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

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.

Who you are:

• You have 6+ years of professional software development experience

• You are proficient in Java and have familiarity with Spring framework.

• Nice to have:

• Experience with php and javascript for server-side

• Basic knowledge in AI/ML, programming skills in Python

• You have experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment

• You have strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles

• You are a technical expert and provide guidance to your team on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues

• You have experience in implementing monitoring, logging, and metrics tools to ensure system health and performance

• You have familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL). You also have Understanding of schema design and query optimization. Nice to have: familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., Bigtable).

• You have familiarity in DevOps practices, including setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• You're on a mission to solve problems, regardless of the technology involved

• You have a strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive and your English language skills are excellent. You excel at collaborating with your team, as well as with teams across the company and key stakeholders.

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 65% coding
• 15% documentation
• 10% bug fixes
• 10% meetings

Methodology

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

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 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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