Software Engineer II, GraphQL and NodeJS

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

Our Application Services team is responsible for the backend services that power our features and experiences for our customers. The goal of this team is to create and maintain enterprise grade services, with best-in-class technologies that are available today. If you enjoy working with large scale distributed systems, while also looking to continuously raise the bar and learn from other experienced backend engineers, this is the team for you.

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work with team architects and engineers in order to drive decisions that align with our future architecture, product, and business goals.

• Work on significant technology initiatives from inception to successful deployment, across multiple layers of architecture, learning from the best minds in cloud engineering.

• Maintain existing functionality in the legacy codebases.

• Work on large scale, distributed systems to drive high availability and reliability for our feature teams and customers, including software delivery aspects and CI/CD.

• Write detailed technical documentation that can convey architectural and product details in a way that can be consumed by the various feature teams that use them.

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

 

WHO YOU ARE

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.

Required skills

• Around 2+ years of professional software development experience

• You have experience designing, building, and deploying high quality software

• You have experience with JavaScript, Node.js, Typescript

• You have experience working with Java or any other server-side language

• You have a passion for learning new technologies and being on the cutting edge of advances in backend and services development.

• You are excited about solving hard problems using data-driven solutions

• You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions

 

Preferred skills

• Experience with GraphQL

• Experience with Google Cloud Services

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Experience building real-time web applications

• Experience working with containerized architecture

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. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

Notice to applicants in Los Angeles:  Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chair Ordinance.  The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here. 

Notice to applicants in San Francisco:  Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chair Ordinance.  The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here. 

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