Software Engineer III, Monolith Foundation

WHAT IS BOX?
Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI. 

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU?
While a significant part of Box's operations is managed by Java and Scala microservices, a monolithic PHP codebase is responsible for much of the critical application logic. This large codebase is contributed to by hundreds of developers at Box and is deployed to production multiple times a day. We're looking for a strong Software Engineer to join our growing Monolith Foundations team in Poland.

The team's mission: to ensure that code makes it from developers' laptops to consumption by our customers safely, frequently and expeditiously.

WHAT YOU'LL DO?

• Design, develop and maintain features that take Box Monolith changes from conception to production safely and expeditiously.
• Work collaboratively with other engineers within the team and at Box in general.
• Represent Box Poland internally and externally.

WHO YOU ARE?

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in PHP and at least one modern programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Python).
• Strong understanding of basic software design principles and patterns.
• Solid grasp of at least one modern source code management solution (e.g. Git, SVN, CVS, etc).
• Interest in CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) area.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD solutions (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, etc).
• Unix/Linux system administration experience.
• Familiarity with modern compute infrastructure technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc) as well as infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc).
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.

PERCENTAGE OF TIME SPENT

• 35% evolving existing infrastructure
• 25% new features
• 25% developer support
• 15% Others

METHODOLOGY

• Agile management - Scrum, Kanban
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence, GitHub
• Version control system - GIT
• Build server - Jenkins
• Virtualization - Docker
• Cloud infrastructure - GCP
• Operating system - Linux, macOS
• Application stack - JVM, Spring, Apache, PHP, nginx
• Databases - MySQL, Redis, Proprietary, Memcached

Methodology

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".