Staff Software Engineer

Strong expertise with Java/JVM, building scalable, high-performance backend systems; open to leveraging other languages when appropriate.

Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including high availability, CAP theorem, and fault tolerance.

Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and key–value / non-relational storages (Redis).

Practical experience with containerization and cloud-native environments, including Docker and Kubernetes.

Hands-on experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, using critical thinking to question assumptions and validate your own decisions.

Strong written and spoken English skills suitable for collaborating in an international engineering environment.

Background in infrastructure engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including infrastructure-as-code practices.

Experience leading technical initiatives, driving cross-team projects, and mentoring other engineers while remaining an individual contributor.

Familiarity with observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Graylog, Zabbix, Grafana) and/or data analytics tools such as BigQuery.

A strong interest in how complex systems fail and a track record of designing them to recover gracefully.

You will join the Backend Reliability (BRE) team, a small, highly specialized, senior group focused solely on Wrike’s reliability. The team operates as an internal “reliability task force,” partnering closely with product and platform engineering teams across the company. You’ll collaborate with other senior engineers who value autonomy, deep technical discussions, and rigorous engineering practices. The culture is ownership-driven: you are trusted to manage your time, make architectural decisions, and drive initiatives to completion.

The BRE team works on core backend and infrastructure services that support millions of users. We operate in a collaborative environment that values clear communication, thoughtful design, and fast feedback loops.

Tech focus areas include: Java/JVM-based services, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ/Kafka, and observability/monitoring tools.

We encourage the use of modern AI-based tooling and coding agents as part of daily development and troubleshooting workflows.

Work is organized with an emphasis on impact and reliability goals rather than ticket volume, giving you room for deep work and long-term improvements.

Hybrid work mode (Prague, Czech Republic / Nicosia, Cyprus), with flexibility to balance focused individual work and collaborative sessions.

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 / Thursdays

Interview with a Recruiter

Technical interview

System Design Interview

Cultural interview

Your recruitment buddy will be Aleksandar Chernev, Senior Technical Recruiter.

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🤩 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.