Senior Fullstack Engineer, Box Apps

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle.Our Warsaw office is an incredibly exciting addition to our EMEA expansion. We're already in UK, France, and Germany, and the new Poland location will act as a global engineering and product development hub alongside our headquarters in Redwood City, California.

Why Box needs you:

Box is looking for skilled individuals to join our engineering teams in Warsaw, where we're expanding by over 100 members in 2024. Your expertise is crucial in addressing challenges related to cloud-based content management, directly impacting the productivity of users at major enterprises.

We are currently seeking individuals for the following team:

• Box Apps is an intelligent no-code 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!

What you'll do:

• Implement server-side logic and database interactions using Java and related frameworks.
• Create and maintain APIs to facilitate seamless communication between frontend and backend systems.
• Collaborate closely with designers to ensure a visually appealing and user-friendly experience in the application.
• Participate actively in code reviews to ensure high code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance across the entire stack for a smooth user experience.
• Maintain documentation on development setup and engineering environment along with the greater team.
• Compose written specifications and documentation for software projects.
• Attend and engage in weekly stand-ups, team meetings, manager 1:1s.
• Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture in the newly created office.
• Participate in the production on-call duties rotation with the team members

Who you are: 

• Extensive experience (7+ years) in designing, implementing, and maintaining full-stack solutions.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
• Adaptability is at the core of our expectations. Our current main tech stack is TypeScript, React.js, Java 17, and Spring Boot, but we highly value a solid foundation and swift learning.
• 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, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.
• Actively engage in feedback processes, contribute to code reviews, and play a role in enhancing team processes and practices.
• Must speak English proficiently

Additional points for: 

• Experience with public cloud systems such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Experience with messaging infrastructure - RabbitMQ, Kafka or similar technologies.
• Experience contributing to open source project

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.

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

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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