Full-Stack Engineer

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

As a Software Engineer on the Automate team, you will be at the heart of Box's workflow automation platform - a product that empowers millions of users to automate complex business processes without writing code. The Automate team is a growing organization of ~30 engineers across four specialized teams, responsible for building the intelligent automation engine, intuitive user interface, and seamless integrations that enable organizations to transform how they work.

In this role, you will design and develop full-stack solutions that span from backend automation logic to responsive frontend experiences. You'll work with Java and React/TypeScript to build scalable, performant systems that handle millions of workflow executions daily. You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to innovate on automation capabilities, improve user experience, and integrate with enterprise applications. Your work will directly impact how customers streamline their most critical business processes - from contract lifecycle management to invoice processing to employee onboarding.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement full-stack features for the Box Automate platform, writing clean, maintainable code in Java (backend) and React/TypeScript (frontend)
• Develop and optimize backend services that power workflow automation, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability across distributed systems
• Build responsive, intuitive user interfaces in React that enable users to create, configure, and monitor automated workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, design, and infrastructure to define requirements, propose technical solutions, and deliver features on schedule
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to engineering best practices and architectural decisions
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise
• Attend and engage in weekly stand-ups, team meetings, and manager 1:1s to ensure alignment and continuous improvement

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.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated expertise in full-stack development
• Strong proficiency in Java and React/TypeScript; deep understanding of object-oriented design principles, REST APIs, and modern web development patterns
• Experience building scalable backend systems, including database design, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing
• Proven ability to assess, communicate, and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time-sensitive manner
• Fluent English proficiency (written and verbal)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred Skills

• Experience with workflow automation, business process management, or integration platforms (nice to have, not required)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices
• Track record of leading cross-functional projects or mentoring junior engineers
• Experience with enterprise integrations and API design
• Contributions to open-source projects or demonstrated passion for software craftsmanship

Methodology

• Agile management – Scrum

• Issue tracking tool – Jira

• Knowledge repository – GitHub Enterprise

• Code reviews – GitHub Enterprise

• Version control system – Git

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.

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