Senior Software Backend Engineer

Box Box · Enterprise · Warsaw, Poland · Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer role at Box, an AI-first company focused on Intelligent Content Management. The role involves developing high-scale, distributed systems, performance optimization, auto-scaling microservices, and ensuring data integrity. While the company is AI-first and aims to transform workflows with AI, this specific role focuses on the backend infrastructure supporting these initiatives rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop new backend features focused on high scale and performance.
  2. Design and implement auto-scaling solutions for microservices.
  3. Solve challenges related to distributed systems at scale.
  4. Measure system performance; identify bottlenecks; optimize accordingly.
  5. Build internal tools supporting testing automation, deployment pipelines & product support.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Linux
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • GIT

Nice to have

  • Python
  • Scala
  • PHP
  • MongoDB

What the JD emphasized

  • high-scale, distributed systems
  • performance optimization
  • auto-scaling microservices
  • ensuring data integrity during large-scale migrations
  • maintaining search indexing accuracy