Staff Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Wrike is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their dynamic internal team focused on enhancing development efficiency, simplifying solutions, and improving architecture. This role involves partnering with talented engineers to build effective internal tools, support growing solutions, and uplift code quality. The engineer will drive architectural evolution by enhancing monolithic and microservices architectures, develop and maintain internal tools using technologies like PMD and ArchUnit, refactor complex codebases, advocate for best practices like low coupling and high cohesion, and share knowledge across the developer community. A key aspect is the proactive utilization of AI-powered tools and coding agents to streamline development and boost productivity. The position emphasizes strong English communication and a collaborative team mindset.
Must have:
  • 7+ years developing scalable software solutions
  • Strong experience with Java and Postgres
  • Proactive utilization of AI tools and coding agents
  • Strong English communication skills
  • Experience in high-level engineering groups
Good to have:
  • Passion for software architecture design
  • University Degree in Software Engineering
  • Hands-on experience in agile environments
Perks:
  • Health insurance for you and your family
  • SIM card with unlimited internet
  • 25 paid vacation days
  • 5 uncertified sick days per year
  • 10 fully-paid continuous sick leave days
  • School allowance up to €600/month
  • Up to 18 weeks paid maternity leave
  • 2 weeks paid paternity leave

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?

In this role, you’ll partner with other talented engineers to empower our product teams. Your mission: build effective internal tools, support the complexity of our growing solutions, and uplift our code quality. If you enjoy meaningful technical autonomy and making a direct impact across the organization, this could be the perfect next step for you. You’ll not only collaborate with some of our brightest minds but also help guide and inspire others along the way.
 

More about Your team

You’ll be part of a dynamic, supportive internal team focused on supercharging development efficiency, simplifying solutions, and continuously improving our architecture. As a newly established group, we’re eager to challenge the status quo and introduce innovative ideas for backend software development—always aiming higher, together!

How You’ll make an impact

  • Architectural Evolution: Dive into technical research to enhance the maintainability of both our monolithic and microservices architectures, ensuring they remain easy to navigate and adapt.
  • Tools & Standards: Help develop and maintain powerful internal tools for architecture quality—working with technologies like PMD, ArchUnit, and more, with a focus on consistency and reliability.
  • Refactoring Excellence: Tackle the toughest codebases, refactoring and simplifying as you go to make our solutions more elegant and less complex.
  • Clean Code Advocacy: Champion architectural best practices, always emphasizing industry standards such as low coupling and high cohesion.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Play an active role in fostering technical growth by sharing insights about maintaining technical quality and robust architecture across the developer community.

You will achieve your best if you have

  • Experience: 7+ years developing scalable software solutions, including substantial architectural improvements and process optimization.
  • Tech Stack: Strong experience with Java and Postgres.
  • AI Tools and Coding Agents: Proactive utilization of modern AI-powered tools and coding agents is not just a plus, but a key to success in this role. We value forward-thinkers who harness AI to streamline development, analyze architectures, automate code reviews, and supercharge productivity.
  • Proven Communicator: Strong English communication skills—able to debate, discuss, and reach consensus within a diverse team of top engineers.
  • Team Mindset: Experience working collaboratively in high-level engineering groups, with the ability to support and guide peers toward collective success.

You will stand out with

  • Real passion for software architecture design and best practices.
  • University Degree in Software Engineering (or closely related field).
  • Hands-on experience in agile software development environments.

Perks of working at Wrike

  • Health insurance for you and your family
  • SIM card with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment)
  • 25 paid vacation days
  • 5 uncertified sick days per year
  • 10 fully-paid continuous working days of sick leave per year
  • School allowance of up to €600 per month (for children at school age)
  • Up to 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave
  • 2 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. 2 additional weeks which are provided by Wrike of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service

 

What’s next?

  • Interview with a Recruiter
  • Technical interview
  • System Design Interview 
  • Cultural interview 

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 model for team members near our office hubs in San Diego, Prague, Dublin, Nicosia, and Tallinn, with 2–3 in-office days per week to foster collaboration and teamwork. 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 TeamMedium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike. 

Check us out on Glassdoor.

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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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