Staff Software Engineer, E-Commerce

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:
Are you an experienced and inspiring engineering leader? Are you obsessed with building products that make use of best-in-class modern architecture, and add value to businesses around the globe? Then this is the place for you. You will make decisions that shape our product, future architecture, and business goals. As a technical leader, you will lead key initiatives from inception to successful deployment, working closely with other engineers and cross functional partners to deliver solutions that will drive meaningful business impact.

About the team:
E-Commerce Platform is a new backend team at Box critical to our Growth organization - responsible for building the systems that enable all existing and prospective customers of any size and scale to purchase, adopt, and manage their Box subscription through our self-service experiences. This work will help Box expand into new international markets, provide all customers access to Box’s full suite of offerings, and enhance our pricing & discount offer engine to fuel business growth. These services power purchases that make up a sizable portion of Box’s revenue, so uptime and reliability are paramount. Near-term projects include modernizing our tech stack to improve performance and developer productivity as well as expanding backend capabilities for purchasing Box which will generate net-new recurring revenue for the business.

Who you are:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience with an understanding of best practices
• Fluent in at least one of the OOP language (Java or/and PHP)
• Hands-on experience with building highly scalable distributed systems
• Good understanding of scalability and observability practices
• Act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions
• You are a problem solver and you look for a team of like-minded people
• You have a deep understanding of algorithms, data structures and software design
• You are experienced in helping define REST APIs
• Demonstrable experience in guiding and mentoring a team of high performing engineers
• Experience leading cross functional projects
• Have proficient knowledge of software design
• Solid experience with automated testing principles and frameworks
• Must speak English proficiently

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience in the e-commerce domain
• Experience working with distributed teams in different time zones
• Prior experience with NodeJS, and/or React

Percentage of time spent: 

• 40% technical investigation
• 25% coding
• 10% documentation
• 10% developer support and mentoring
• 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.