Wrike
Staff Backend Engineer
Job Summary
This role involves partnering with engineering teams to build internal tools, improve code quality, and support architectural evolution with a focus on scalability and maintainability. Candidates should have extensive experience in software architecture, particularly with Java and Postgres, and be comfortable working with microservices and monolithic systems. The position emphasizes refactoring, adhering to industry standards, and leveraging AI tools to enhance development productivity. Strong communication skills and a team-oriented mindset are essential to collaborate effectively within a high-level engineering environment.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
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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.
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
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
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.
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