Senior Software Engineer, Monolith

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.

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.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU?

While a significant part of Box's operations is managed by Java and Scala microservices, a monolithic PHP codebase is responsible for much of the critical application logic. This large codebase is contributed to by hundreds of developers at Box and is deployed to production multiple times a day. We're looking for a strong Software Engineer to join our growing Monolith Foundations team in Poland.

The team's mission: to ensure that code makes it from developers' laptops to consumption by our customers safely, frequently and expeditiously.

WHAT YOU'LL DO?

• Design, develop and maintain features that take Box Monolith changes from conception to production safely and expeditiously.
• Work collaboratively with other engineers within the team and at Box in general.
• Represent Box Poland internally and externally.
• Participate in the production on-call rotation with the team members.

WHO YOU ARE?

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Proficiency in PHP and at least one other programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Python)
• Strong understanding of basic software design principles and patterns
• Solid grasp of at least one modern source code management solution (e.g. Git, SVN, CVS, etc)
• Interest in CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) area
• Proficiency in spoken and written English

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Proficiency in Java
• Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD solutions (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, etc).
• Unix/Linux system administration experience.
• Familiarity with modern compute infrastructure technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc).
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.

PERCENTAGE OF TIME SPENT

• 35% evolving existing infrastructure
• 25% new features
• 25% developer support
• 15% Others

METHODOLOGY

• Agile management - Scrum, Kanban
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence, GitHub
• Version control system - GIT
• Build server - Jenkins
• Virtualization - Docker
• Cloud infrastructure - GCP
• Operating system - Linux, macOS
• Application stack - JVM, Spring, PHP, nginx
• Databases - MySQL, Redis, Proprietary, Memcached

 

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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