Senior Fullstack Engineer, Automate

Job description

### 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 Senior 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 with a strong emphasis on frontend - you'll spend the majority of your time architecting and building intuitive, high-performance user interfaces in **React/TypeScript**, while collaborating closely on **backend architecture** and bringing solid knowledge of the distributed systems that power our automation engine. We expect you to be comfortable **working across the full stack**, with deep mastery of modern frontend development and strong foundational knowledge in backend systems. You'll work primarily with React/TypeScript alongside backend technologies (**with Java experience being a strong plus**) to build responsive, performant workflows and applications that seamlessly interact with systems handling millions of daily executions. 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 features for the Box Automate - leading with frontend architecture in React/TypeScript, while actively contributing to distributed systems and backend design discussions - Architect and build rich, responsive, and intuitive user interfaces in React that enable users to seamlessly create, configure, and monitor complex automated workflows - Collaborate on developing and integrating with backend services and distributed systems that power workflow automation - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, design, and infrastructure to define requirements, propose technical solutions, and deliver features on schedule - Review code, mentor junior engineers, and help shape our engineering practices - Participate in our on-call rotation - when it's your week, you're expected to be reachable outside business hours, including evenings and weekends, to respond to production incidents ### 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. - **5+ years** of professional software development experience, with demonstrated expertise in **full-stack development** - Strong proficiency in **React, TypeScript,** and modern frontend architecture, with solid knowledge of **backend principles, REST APIs, and distributed systems** (proficiency or experience with Java is a strong advantage) - Comfortable operating across the full stack at a professional level - you can spearhead frontend architecture independently while understanding and interfacing with backend services and distributed systems independently - Solid understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture, including API contracts, caching strategies, database design, and asynchronous event processing - Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices - Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team - through RFCs, design docs, or cross-team collaboration - Able to manage your own delivery and communicate progress clearly under deadlines - **Fluent English proficiency (written and verbal)** **Preferred Skills** - Experience with workflow automation, business process management, or integration platforms (nice to have, not required) - Hands-on experience with Java and backend microservices architecture is a strong plus - Track record of leading cross-functional projects or mentoring junior engineers - Experience with enterprise integrations and API design - Contributions to open-source projects or care about code quality **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. For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice. For more details on how Box Poland protects your information, please see our Supplemental Personnel and Candidate Privacy Notice. **NOTICE OF USE OF AI** At Box, we believe in the power of AI to improve the recruiting process while keeping people at the heart of every decision. For more information on the use of AI in our hiring process, please visit our webpage [here](https://careers.box.com/en/how-we-hire/ai-in-our-hiring-process/). #LI-Hybrid #LI-NP1