Senior Backend Engineer

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. About the Role: As a Senior Backend Engineer in Wrike’s Solutions Unit, you will design, build, and evolve backend services that power key enterprise workflows, with a strong focus on resource management, workload planning, capacity management, utilization analytics, and asset scheduling. This role is critical to delivering differentiated capabilities for Wrike’s ideal customer profiles, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. You will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering peers to create scalable, reliable, and customer-centric solutions. As Wrike continues its transition toward a highly scalable microservice-based platform, you will play an important role in shaping backend architecture, improving development efficiency, and supporting Wrike’s mission to become the leading workflow solution provider. Your Impact: Design, build, and enhance backend services and features, from greenfield development to improvements of existing functionality. Solve complex technical and product challenges in collaboration with cross-functional teammates. Contribute to the evolution of Wrike’s backend architecture as we continue moving from monolith to microservices. Estimate development effort, write automated tests, and perform code reviews to ensure high quality, maintainable software. Deliver iteratively in a fast-paced product environment using modern engineering best practices in design, testing, and deployment. Use AI tools and coding agents in day-to-day development to improve productivity, quality, and automation. Partner with Product Managers to influence product direction through technical insight and a strong customer perspective. Support technical improvements that reduce solution complexity, increase development efficiency, and strengthen architecture quality. Help improve maintainability across both monolith and microservice environments through better tooling, standards, and engineering practices. Actively contribute to the growth of teammates through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. Your Qualifications: Strong hands-on software development experience with Java, including modern versions and backend development best practices. Solid experience with Spring and Spring Boot, including IoC concepts. Strong knowledge of REST APIs and SQL. Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, especially PostgreSQL and Redis. Good understanding of the Java web stack, including HTTP, filters, servlets, and web security. Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks. Proven experience working in product teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Excellent spoken and written English communication skills. Proactive, collaborative mindset with a strong focus on solving real customer problems. Passion for improving technical systems and engineering processes, not just delivering features. Curiosity about AI and practical experience using AI tools to improve development workflows. Standout Qualities: Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue. Knowledge of TypeScript, HTTP requests, and REST API integrations. Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts. Ability to independently design and architect complex backend systems and web applications. Experience collaborating with Product Managers and Designers during product discovery. Previous experience building solutions for enterprise customers or within enterprise software environments. Proven track record of designing scalable, secure, and robust architectures. Experience with architectural governance and code quality tooling such as PMD, ArchUnit, or similar tools. Familiarity with working across both monolithic and microservice architectures. Team Dynamics: You will join a cross-functional team within Wrike’s Solutions Unit, working closely with Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, QA, UI/UX Designers, and Product Managers. Teams at Wrike are empowered to make decisions, own outcomes, and collaborate closely to deliver end-to-end customer value. In addition, this role connects strongly with Wrike’s internal engineering evolution efforts. You will contribute to initiatives focused on increasing development efficiency, reducing solution complexity, and maintaining high architectural quality across both legacy and modern systems. Our Work Style: Cross-functional Scrum teams where every voice matters and teams play a central role in decision-making. Daily collaboration across Backend, Frontend, QA, Product, and Design to deliver meaningful customer outcomes. Strong investment in architecture, CI/CD, internal tooling, and engineering productivity to support frequent and reliable delivery. Backend Engineers are expected to actively drive technical improvements, contribute to architecture decisions, and help shape product direction. Ongoing transition from monolith to microservices, giving teams more ownership and flexibility while being supported by dedicated technical initiatives. Modern backend environment centered around Java and Spring Boot, with PostgreSQL and Redis as key data technologies. Current platform evolution includes migration from Java 21 to Java 25 and evaluation of migration from Spring Boot 6 Focus on maintainability and architecture quality through engineering tools and practices, including solutions such as PMD and ArchUnit. Hybrid work setup with access to great office locations, modern collaboration tools, and AI-assisted workflows. What’s Next? Recruiter Screen 30 min Department Interview 105 min System Design Interview 90 min Cultural Interview 90 min Why Join Wrike? 25 calendar days of paid vacation Sick Leave Compensation (5 Paid Uncertified Sick Days) Parental Leave: 18 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity 2 Volunteer Days Medical Insurance (Employees + Dependents) Hybrid Working Model School Allowance (Up to €600/month for school aged kids) Simcard w/ Unlimited Internet Access for active employees Office Lunch Allowance (via Wolt) on Wednesdays / Thursday 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 is our people, not a place. With 1,000+ employees collaborating across nearly every time zone, we support talent through 10 global hubs — Australia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, France, India, Ireland, Japan, and the United States — offering flexible ways of working that include remote work, hybrid environments, and co-working spaces across many locations. While flexibility looks different across teams and regions, employees located near certain hubs — particularly in Prague (CZ), Nicosia (CY), Bangalore (IN), and Rennes (FR) — are generally expected to collaborate in person around 2–3 days per week, balancing the flexibility of distributed work with opportunities for in-person collaboration and connection. 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.