Staff Software Engineer, Content Creation

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WHAT IS BOX?

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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.

About the Team:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Creation team, you will be at the forefront of real time applications within Box. Being one of the core applications, we are one of the first stops customers make when using Box platform. You will play an integral role in paving the future path for what it means to generate content within Box.

The Content Creation owns Notes and Canvas products of Box's platform. The functionality that this team builds is used by our largest cohorts of users (versus just admin users). They are the only true real-time service at Box, using web sockets to deliver a real-time editing product. It's a complex problem space that we are experts in, and it's a great team to join if you want to contribute to creating one of the most vital Box products. The team is mostly developing Front-End with react.js, for Back-End tasks they use mostly node.js.

Why Box needs you:

At Box, we are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in the development of Box Notes, our collaborative note-taking and real-time editing tool. Your expertise will be essential in driving the success of Box Notes and ensuring it continues to meet the evolving needs of our users. You’ll be involved in initiatives aimed at transforming our codebase and the overall app, and you’ll be successful thanks to what you bring.

• We require your ability to re-think, re-architecture, and refactor the legacy components of our codebase, ensuring that Box Notes remains efficient, scalable, and adaptable.
• Your strong teamwork and leadership qualities will enable you to collaborate effectively with fellow architects and your team, fostering discussions and proposing innovative solutions to technical challenges.
• We value your commitment to maintaining high-quality standards while managing efficient development timelines, ensuring that our users get the best possible experience.

What you’ll do:

• Lead large-scale projects to completion, from requirements gathering to deployment, while fostering Box culture and representing Box Poland internally and externally.
• Collaborate with the team to assess, align, and plan the re-architecture of any components in Notes that do not meet Box's overall engineering standards.
• Review and assess the technical feasibility of project requirements and propose innovative solutions.
• Adapt to the technical and stylistic needs of integrations and projects as they occur; including technical tools, programming languages, technical limitations, and product requirements
• Ensure that the re-architecture enables safe, efficient, and maintainable development of high-quality features, in order to improve user and developer experience.
• Manage and maintain substantial portions of legacy code on both the frontend and backend.
• Take part in daily stand-ups, sprint review/retrospectives, planning sessions, team meetings, and one-on-one meetings with the manager.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Who you are:

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.

• You have 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• You possess strong knowledge of data structures and software design principles
• You have experience in frontend development (Typescript, React.js).
• You have expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, as well as experience in test automation.
• You are the technical expert and who can provide guidance to junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues
• You have experience working with legacy codebases and tightly-coupled systems (we’re now in the process of decoupling/refactoring it) —in fact, you thrive on the excitement and extra challenges they bring to the table!
• Your focus is on designing and implementing scalable services that prioritize reliability, observability, operability, and efficiency.

Requirements that are Welcome:

• Experience with Web sockets and real-time applications
• Experience with modern frontend architecture

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 30% Coding
• 20% Technical investigation
• 15% Documentation
• 10% Developer support and mentoring
• 15% Meetings
• 10% On-call activities and bug fixing

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 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 OPPORTUNITYWe 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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