Senior Backend Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Wrike, you will design, build, and improve features, solving complex challenges, collaborating with the team, and writing tests. You will embrace iterative, fast-paced development, use AI tools, and continuously learn. The role involves working with Java, Spring, REST APIs, SQL, and databases such as PostgreSQL and Redis. The responsibilities include contributing to the development of a work management platform, ensuring top-notch technical quality, and sharing ideas with Product Owners. The team works in a hybrid environment, focusing on collaboration and delivering business outcomes.
Must have:
- Strong hands-on software development experience using Java, Spring, and REST APIs.
- Confident working with relational and non-relational databases.
- Comfortable with modern unit/integration testing frameworks.
- Excellent English communication skills for team meetings.
- Passionate about solving customer problems and improving tech.
- Curious about AI and using it to boost workflow.
Good to have:
- Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Comfortable designing and architecting complex web applications.
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript basics.
- Skilled at collaborating with Product Managers and Designers.
- Previous experience working within enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to design robust, scalable system solutions.
Perks:
- 25 days of holidays
- Sick leave compensation
- Cafeteria bonuses (Benefit plus)
- Private healthcare membership (Canadian Medical)
- Meal vouchers 220 CZK / working day
- Pension plan
- Mobile tariffs
- "Lítačka” transportation annual coupon reimbursement
- Multisport card
- Parental leave
15 skills required
Job Details
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.
Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.
Ready to become a Wriker?
Are you excited to work with curious, talented people who love tackling technical challenges together? Would you like the chance to explore a range of technologies and share what you learn with your team and beyond? At Wrike, you’ll directly impact our biggest goal—winning Enterprise Customers and making their lives easier. We offer a flexible hybrid work setup, team-building events to keep things fun, and a fantastic office locations.
More about Your team
At Wrike, everyone’s voice matters—our Scrum teams (with FE, BE, QA, UI, UX, and a PO) are at the heart of decision-making. Backend engineers in product teams handle both business logic and technical challenges, while technical teams ensure smooth internal tooling, CI/CD, and a great developer experience. We invest in our architecture, deploy daily with hardly any merge conflicts, and encourage backend engineers to change things up, work on technical improvements, and help shape product plans by sharing ideas with POs. As we move toward a microservice architecture, product teams enjoy more ownership and flexibility, with support from the technical teams. Our goal is to make clients’ lives easier by building simple, powerful solutions that work for everyone—from startups to large enterprises.
How You’ll make an impact
- Design, build, and improve features—whether starting fresh or updating existing ones
- Solve complex challenges and collaborate with the team to discuss and refine solutions
- Estimate tasks, write tests, and review code to ensure top-notch technical quality
- Embrace iterative, fast-paced development and always use best practices
- Use AI tools daily to automate and level up our work
- Keep learning and help your teammates grow along the way
You will achieve your best if you have
This is a Senior role—so while we won’t box you in with a specific number of years required, we trust your self-awareness to know if you’re ready for the challenge:
- Strong hands-on software development experience using Java (8+), Spring (IoC concepts), REST APIs, and SQL.
- Confident working with both relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Redis) databases.
- Comfortable with modern unit/integration testing frameworks and the Java web stack (HTTP, filters, servlets, web security).
- Previous product team experience and a proactive, collaborative attitude.
- Excellent English communication skills—you’re great at sharing ideas and presenting during team meetings.
- Passionate about solving real customer problems and improving tech and processes.
- Curious about AI—regularly use AI tools (like coding agents or automation) to boost your workflow.
You will stand out with
- Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (such as Angular, React, or Vue), HTTP requests, TypeScript, and REST APIs
- Comfortable designing and architecting complex web applications independently
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript basics
- Skilled at collaborating with Product Managers and Designers on Product Discovery
- Previous experience working within enterprise environments
- Proven ability to design and architect robust, scalable system solutions
Perks of working at Wrike
- 25 days of holidays
- Sick leave compensation
- Cafeteria bonuses (Benefit plus)
- Private healthcare membership (Canadian Medical)
- Meal vouchers 220 CZK / working day
- Pension plan
- Mobile tariffs
- „Lítačka” transportation annual coupon reimbursement
- Multisport card
- Parental leave
Your recruitment buddy will be Aleksandar Chernev, Senior Technical Recruiter.
#LI-AC1
Who Is Wrike and Our Culture
We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.
Hybrid work mode
Wrike promotes a hybrid work mode for those that live near an office hub, we meet in the office 2-3 times a week. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.
Our persona
💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.
💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!
🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.
Our culture and Values
🤩 Customer-Focused
We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.
🤝 Collaborative
We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.
🎨 Creative
We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.
💪 Committed
We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.
Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.
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About The Company
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create and exceed goals every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity and free up people to focus on their most purposeful work. With unmatched flexibility, security and intelligence, Wrike is the only work management solution an organization will ever need in order to scale, optimize and move fast in a competitive world. More than 20,000 happy customers power their future and come together in Wrike, including Estée Lauder, Hootsuite, Nielsen, Ogilvy, Siemens, Tiffany & Co.We are guided by our three core values: Grow, Execute, and Collaborate. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of 900 Wrikers around the globe.
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