Staff Backend Engineer - Internal team

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?

As a Staff Software Engineer at Wrike you will work in the technical (internal) teams enabling the product development teams by developing internal tooling, supporting the complexity of the solution and improving the quality of the code.

This is a great opportunity for you if you like to have freedom in technical decisions. You can have an impact on the whole engineering team, and you will get to work with one of the best developers we have at Wrike.

This role works under no mentoring and may be responsible for providing coaching, guidance, and training to others in the job area.

More about Your Team

This particular internal team is mainly focused on increasing development efficiency, reducing the solution complexity, and maintaining architecture quality. It’s a new team of professionals aiming to rethink current approaches of software development in Backend.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Through the technical research of improving current solution maintainability. We have both architectures - monolith and microservices, so the goal is to make both solutions easy to read and modify.
• Through the implementation of tools for maintenance and control of architecture quality. We already use different tools like PMD, ArchUnit and want them to be consistent and reliable.
• By refactoring of current architecture and code, including most complex parts to reduce cognitive and cyclomatic complexity.
• Through the development and implementation of approaches to keep architecture clean. Application of industry standards like low coupling, high cohesion to our solution.
• Via Knowledge sharing to increase developer skills and knowledge in the scope of technical quality and architecture.

You Will Achieve Your Best if You Have

• A minimum of 7 years of prior relevant development experience
• Java and Postgres expertise
• An experience of big improvements in the scope of software architecture, software development processes, and technical quality.
• Advanced communication skills in English
• Ability to work in the team of staff employees: argue your decisions, achieve win-win agreements, etc.

You Will Stand Out With

• A passion for building and design software architecture
• University Degree in SW Engineering
• Experience with agile software development

Perks of Working at Wrike

• Health insurance for you and your family
• SIM card with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment)
• 21 paid vacation days
• 5 uncertified sick days per year
• 10 fully-paid 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. Enhanced four weeks of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service

Your recruitment buddy will be Pavel Kucera, 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, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.