Own the architecture of key backend and frontend systems within Core Experiences.
Lead the implementation of high-impact components end-to-end.
Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and observable from day one.
Drive Execution at Scale
Partner with engineering teams across Warsaw and Redwood City to turn architecture into working systems.
Lead delivery of large, cross-team initiatives with measurable business impact.
Balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability in real-world tradeoffs.
Set Technical Direction
Establish patterns, frameworks, and standards that enable teams to move faster.
Translate business priorities into clear technical roadmaps.
Identify risks early and guide teams toward pragmatic solutions.
Enable AI in Engineering
Enable teams across Core Experiences to apply AI in their day-to-day engineering operations - coding, code review, testing, debugging, documentation, and incident response.
Design and build agents that support the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and implementation through code review, testing, deployment, and operations.
Establish best practices, guardrails, and reusable patterns for safe and effective AI usage in engineering workflows.
Evaluate and integrate AI tooling (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, internal Box AI capabilities) into the team's standard development workflow.
Measure and continuously improve developer productivity and code quality through AI-driven workflows.
Influence & Mentor
Collaborate across geographies and functions to align on architecture and execution.
Mentor senior and staff engineers in system design, implementation, and effective use of AI in engineering.
Contribute to a culture of strong ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
Ship Code
Be hands-on in prototyping and contributing production-grade code across the stack.
What You'll tackle in the first 6-12 months
Lead the effort to break our backend and frontend out of the monolith into modern, modular, and maintainable architectures.
Drive the organization's adoption of continuous integration and DevOps best practices, raising the bar for build, test, and deployment workflows.
Roll out AI-assisted engineering practices across Core Experiences - enabling teams to use AI in their day-to-day work and embedding it into coding, review, and operational workflows.
Design and ship agents that support the SDLC (e.g., code generation, automated review, test authoring, release readiness, on-call assistance) and demonstrate measurable productivity gains.
Define how we build
Additional Information
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.
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.
Why Box needs You
We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Core Experience organization, supporting both backend and frontend engineering across our Warsaw and Redwood City sites. This is a high-impact, hands-on senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to design complex systems and see them through to production in a customer-facing domain.
You will help shape the technical direction of a large-scale, customer-facing platform - breaking out of our monolith, modernizing our backend and frontend architectures, and leading the organization toward strong continuous integration and DevOps practices. You will also champion AI adoption across the organization - enabling teams to use AI in their day-to-day engineering operations and building agents that accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC). You will ensure that systems are not only well-designed, but built, shipped, and operating reliably at scale.
Box · Warsaw, Poland