Engineering Manager II, Mobile Foundations

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:

The Mobile Foundations engineering team enables Box's frontend engineers to build and deliver essential features for our iOS and Android apps used by millions by providing a best-in-class developer experience, robust shared foundations, and clear guidance for cross-platform development from design to code to production. As the manager of this team, you'll partner with stakeholders to set the roadmap, prioritize tasks, and lead your team to achieve its goals, delighting customers & maximizing impact!

Who you are:

• At least 2 years of experience as a software engineering manager, leading teams responsible for high-scale production services.
• At least 5 years of professional software development experience, contributing to the development of full-stack applications and/or distributed systems.
• Experience building cross-platform frontend applications using a combination of React-Native and native (Swift/Kotlin/React) technologies
• 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 modeling 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:

• Passion for and experience with improving developer experience across an organization

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Manage and coordinate the team’s on-call rotation to ensure timely and effective incident response, actively participate in escalated on-call incidents to provide leadership and support, and drive improvements by addressing recurring issues to minimize disruptions.

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.