Staff Backend Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Wrike is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to build internal tools, support complex solutions, and improve code quality. This role involves collaborating with talented engineers to enhance architecture, develop and maintain internal tools, refactor code, and promote best practices. The engineer will be responsible for architectural evolution, tools and standards, refactoring excellence, clean code advocacy, and knowledge sharing. This position requires a strong understanding of Java and Postgres, with a focus on AI-powered tools for development. The role involves working in a hybrid work mode, requiring collaboration with other engineers. The candidate should have strong communication skills and be able to reach consensus within a diverse team.
Must have:
- 7+ years of scalable software solutions experience.
- Strong experience with Java and Postgres.
- Proactive utilization of modern AI-powered tools.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Experience working collaboratively in high-level engineering groups.
Good to have:
- Real passion for software architecture design.
- University Degree in Software Engineering.
- Hands-on experience in agile software development environments.
Perks:
- 28 calendar days of paid vacation
- Sick leave compensation
- Life insurance plan
- Health insurance plan
- Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
- Parental leave
- 2 volunteer days
- Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
- Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)
7 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?
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
- 28 calendar days of paid vacation
- Sick leave compensation
- Life insurance plan
- Health insurance plan
- Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
- Parental leave
- 2 volunteer days
- Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
- Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)
What’s next?
- Interview with a Recruiter
- Technical interview
- Cultural interview
Your recruitment buddy will be Aleksandar Chernev, Senior Technical Recruiter.
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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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