Why Box needs you

Box is looking for visionary technical leaders for our engineering teams in Warsaw, who will lead, inspire, and mentor engineers, while bridging communication between the US and Poland engineering hubs, and fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. The engineering manager role at Box involves spearheading significant technology initiatives, overseeing the entire lifecycle of projects across multiple architectural layers. Your knowledge can be vital for improving Box product and solving exciting challenges related to Cloud Content Management.

We are looking for a leader to join the following team:

• Box Apps is an intelligent no-code builder designed to empower businesses to create custom applications in hours instead of weeks - no specialized developers required. By combining content, metadata, workflows, and users, Box Apps allows teams to build tailored tools that enhance productivity across departments. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Box Apps makes it easy to create dynamic dashboards for tracking processes, managing metadata at scale, and extracting AI-driven insights. From automating document handling to launching workflows, Box Apps delivers streamlined solutions that keep information accurate, organized, and accessible - powering smarter, faster decision-making for the teams

Your expertise is essential to our journey in shaping tomorrow's content management landscape!

Who you are

• Ideally, you have over 2 years of experience as a software engineering manager, leading teams responsible for high-scale production services.
• You possess at least 5 years of professional software development experience, contributing to the development of full-stack web applications and/or distributed systems.
• You excel at aligning and executing new technical ideas, demonstrating an understanding of best practices.
• Proven experience in driving effective execution with agile processes in a dynamic environment.
• A people-oriented leader, capable of modelling and fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Exceptional at communicating, passionate about technology and committed to raising the bar.
• Experience working with distributed teams across different time zones is advantageous.
• Proficient in English.

Bonus Points:

• Hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native architecture for AWS, GCP, or similar.
• Passion for open source and staying abreast of community developments.

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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

Expectations:

• Lead a team of experienced engineers in Poland.
• Define the team's roadmap, execution plans, and take ownership of project delivery.
• Develop team members through 1:1s, career planning, coaching discussions, and hiring.
• Uphold values by building a collaborative, inclusive team focused on customer impact.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence through emphasis on execution, quality, and scale.
• Organize stand-ups, sprint planning, technical discussions, and manage sprint task statuses.
• Collaborate with product teams to scope new features, provide project estimates, and inform quarterly commitments.
• Work with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to ensure the team delivers significant business impact.
• Represent Box internally and externally.

Methodology:

• Passion for building distributed systems for large-scale, high-volume applications.
• Dedication to solving complex problems using data-driven solutions.
• Belief in deploying all infrastructure as code.
• Ownership mentality, striving for work that you are proud of, both technically and in team interactions.

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.