Lead Full-Stack Engineer, Content Creation

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.

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?

• →Lead technical change of 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.

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 prioritise reliability, observability, operability, and efficiency.

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

• Backend: Node.js + TypeScript, some PHP, DB: BigTable
• Frontend: React.js + TypeScript + some Vanilla JS
• Infra: Google Cloud Platform (240 pods, 3 regions)
• Other: websockets, real-time editing and collaboration (ProseMirror / TipTap), low-latency and high-availability 

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

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHub Enterprise
• Version control system - GIT