Senior Software Engineer, Content Creation

Box
Warsaw, Poland
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to experienced frontend engineers with backend familiarity working in real-time collaborative content management systems.

Best fit for

  • Experienced frontend engineers with a strong background in React and a willingness to engage in real-time collaborative product development
    — “The Content Creation team owns Notes and Canvas products of Box's platform.”
  • Candidates who are comfortable with maintaining legacy systems and advocating for engineering standards
    — “Contribute to defining and implementing engineering standards across product teams”
  • Individuals who can balance independent work with cross-functional teamwork and have a proactive mindset for continuous improvement
    — “Partner with cross-functional teams to onboard, share knowledge, and align on current responsibilities and priorities”

Things to consider

  • Requires a minimum of three days per week in-office, with specific days emphasized
    — “Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week”
  • On-call responsibilities are expected, which may impact work-life balance
    — “Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with real-time applications and web sockets in your resume and interviews
    — “Experience with Web sockets and real-time applications”
  • Emphasize your ability to maintain legacy systems and improve their performance and security
    — “Maintain and support one or more legacy codebases”
  • Showcase your proficiency in AI-assisted development tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot
    — “Leverage AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development”
  • Demonstrate your ability to create reusable patterns and technical documentation
    — “Create clear technical documentation, reusable patterns, and examples”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • high-quality software delivery
  • real-time service development
Typical background
software development experiencefront-end expertise

Skills & requirements

Required

React.jsJavascript/typescriptNode.jsAPI Design

Preferred

AI Tools

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 Content Creation team 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.

Responsibilities:

Develop high-quality, scalable, and responsive software using modern technologies.

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using industry best practices.

Partner with cross-functional teams to onboard, share knowledge, and align on current responsibilities and priorities

Participate in regular team meetings and manager 1:1s to ensure alignment, growth, and continuous improvement

Create clear technical documentation, reusable patterns, and examples to scale knowledge across engineering teams

Leverage AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development, research, documentation, and bug triage while maintaining high standards of quality and security

Represent and advocate for Box Poland’s engineering excellence both internally and externally

Maintain and support one or more legacy codebases

Contribute to defining and implementing engineering standards across product teams

Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Requirements:

6+ years of professional software development experience.

Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript with at least one modern frontend framework (e.g., React), and strong HTML/CSS knowledge with responsive UIs; strong understanding of state management, accessibility, performance, and security basics.

Some backend coding experience with Node.js is required, and proficiency will be a big advantage

Experience designing and implementing APIs and services; solid grasp of system design and data modeling.

Proven ability to design, build, and deploy high-quality software.

Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.

Passionate about new technologies with the capability to implement them in existing products.

Demonstrates ownership mentality and strives for excellence in both technical work and team interactions.

Proficient in English.

Nice to have:

Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.

Experience with Web sockets and real-time applications

Experience contributing to cross-platform solutions as part of a team

At Box, we believe that providing the best tools leads to the best outcomes. That's why we equip our engineers with AI-powered development tools like Cursor IDE and GitHub Copilot to help you write better code faster.

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.

BENEFITS

Check out the overview of the benefits and additional perks offered at Box.

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 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. 

Source: Box careers (Greenhouse)

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