Senior Backend Engineer, Content Creation

Box Box · Enterprise · Warsaw, Poland · Experiences

Senior Backend Engineer role at Box, focusing on the Content Creation team which owns Notes and Canvas products. The role involves developing high-quality, scalable, and responsive software using Node.js and TypeScript, with a focus on real-time applications. While the company is AI-first and leverages AI tools for development, the core responsibilities are in backend software engineering for content creation products, not direct AI model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop high-quality, scalable, and responsive software using modern technologies.
  2. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using industry best practices.
  3. Partner with cross-functional teams to onboard, share knowledge, and align on current responsibilities and priorities
  4. Participate in regular team meetings and manager 1:1s to ensure alignment, growth, and continuous improvement
  5. Create clear technical documentation, reusable patterns, and examples to scale knowledge across engineering teams

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in Node.js + TypeScript for backend
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs and distributed services; solid grasp of system design and data modeling.
  • Proven ability to design, build, and deploy high-quality software in cloud environments
  • Expertise HTML/CSS, and at least one modern frontend framework (e.g., React); strong understanding of state management, accessibility, performance, and security basics.
  • Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
  • Demonstrate 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

What the JD emphasized

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