Senior Software Engineer, Box Objects

Box
Warsaw, Poland
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level software engineers with a focus on security and high-scale systems, who are comfortable with in-office work and collaborative team structures.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years of experience in Java and a background in building high-scale, business-critical systems.
    — “5+ years of professional software development experience”
  • Individuals with a strong interest in security and identity management, particularly in enterprise environments.
    — “Interest in security topics (authentication, identity, industry best practices, etc.)”
  • Engineers who thrive in cross-functional teams and are comfortable with agile methodologies and code reviews.
    — “Work collaboratively with other engineers, team members, across teams, and with partner organizations”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a minimum of 3 days per week in-office presence.
    — “work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week”
  • Candidates must be prepared for rotating on-call responsibilities.
    — “Participate in the production on-call rotation with the team members”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with large-scale production services and policy decision-making in your resume and interview responses.
    — “Experience building and operating high-scale, business-critical production services”
  • Demonstrate your ability to communicate and meet project milestones effectively.
    — “Assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner”
  • Showcase your proficiency in Java and any additional language experience, such as Scala or Python.
    — “Be proficient in Java”
  • Emphasize your familiarity with GCP and Kubernetes if applicable, as these are preferred skills.
    — “Practical experience working with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Kubernetes”
  • Demonstrate your ability to engage in daily standups and maintain task statuses in Jira.
    — “Attend and engage in stand ups and maintain sprint task statuses in issue tracking tool daily”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Developed and operated high-scale, business-critical production services
  • Collaborated with Product Management to refine requirements and break down complex projects
Typical background
5+ years of professional software development experienceExperience in Java

Skills & requirements

Required

JavaSecurityHigh-scale Production ServicesAgile ManagementScrumJiraGitHubGIT

Preferred

ScalaPHPPythonJavaScriptGCPKubernetes

Stack & domain

JavaScalaPHPPythonJavaScriptLeadershipCommunicationSecurityAuthenticationIdentityCloudKubernetes

About the role

Original posting from Box via Greenhouse

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.

Why Box needs you:

The Box Objects team builds the authorization platform. When someone views, edits, or shares content, a policy decision is made against roles and attributes — we own the service that makes it, correctly and in milliseconds, at enormous scale.

We're a newly formed team building for other engineers: the APIs, policy models, and primitives product teams across the company rely on to ship access control they can trust.

Who you are:  

5+ years of professional software development experience

Be proficient in Java

Interest in security topics (authentication, identity, industry best practices, etc.)

Experience building and operating high-scale, business-critical production services

Assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner 

Must speak English proficiently 

Nice to have:

Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript or other modern software development language

Practical experience working with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Kubernetes

What you'll do:

Attend and engage in stand ups and maintain sprint task statuses in issue tracking tool daily

Attend team, project, and manager 1:1 meetings weekly

Collaborate with Product Management to help refine requirements and break down complex projects into meaningful, deliverable units 

Work collaboratively with other engineers, team members, across teams, and with partner organizations

Respond to technical and behavioral feedback from manager and peers

Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture

Represent Box Poland internally and externalls

Participate in the production on-call rotation with the team members

Methodology

Agile management - Scrum

Issue tracking tool -Jira

Knowledge repository - GitHubEnterprise

Code reviews - GitHubEntreprise 

Version control system - GIT

BENEFITS

Check out the overview of Life at Box which include general perks and benefits.

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. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

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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Source: Box careers (Greenhouse)

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