Senior Backend Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• Recruiter Screen 30 min
• Department Interview 105 min
• System Design Interview 90 min
• Cultural Interview 90 min

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.