Software Backend Engineer

What is Box? Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration, and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal. 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 the UK, France, and Germany, and the new Poland location is a global engineering and product development hub alongside our headquarters in Redwood City, California.

Why Box needs you? Box is looking for visionary technical leaders for our engineering teams in Warsaw, who will lead, inspire, and mentor engineers, while bridging communication between the US and Poland engineering hubs, and fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. The engineering manager role at Box involves spearheading significant technology initiatives, overseeing the entire lifecycle of projects across multiple architectural layers. Your knowledge can be vital for improving Box product and solving exciting challenges related to Cloud Content Management.

We are currently looking for the engineers for the following teams:

• AI Studio: Responsible for developing a product that allows customers to customize their Box AI experience according to their specific needs.
• Shield: Building advanced security capabilities such as integrating AI into automated classification, enhancing device security posture checks, extending security measures down to endpoint protection, and more.
• Metadata: Empowering customers to add additional context to their files and transform them into actionable content. The adoption of Metadata Platform is rapidly increasing as it becomes essential internally for products like Shield, Relay Sign Governance while also being leveraged by our customers in custom applications.
• Carnival: Reimagining user experiences for metadata features during what we see as an inflection point in the traditional Enterprise Content Management market.

Your expertise is essential to our journey in shaping tomorrow's content management landscape!

Who you are:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Proficient in Java (preferred), PHP or Scala
• Experience designing and developing APIs
• You possess strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming
• Assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner
• Adapt to the technical and stylistic needs of integrations and projects as they occur; including technical tools, programming languages, technical limitations, and product requirements
• 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
• Must speak English proficiently

Preferred skills:

• Experience with public cloud systems such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Experience contributing to open source project

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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