Summary
Wrike is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join their Software Development team. Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Key skills: Go, PostgreSQL, REST, Java, Kotlin.
About the role
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:
Wrike is seeking a Backend Developer with Kotlin experience to join our cross-functional mobile team working on a mobile app for collaborative project management. In this role, you will focus on improving Kotlin-based backend services that support the mobile experience, contributing to core platform logic, and helping deliver a seamless and productive experience for enterprise customers on the go.
Your Impact:
- Develop and enhance Kotlin-based backend services that power Wrike’s mobile application
- Contribute to the core platform, including APIs, business logic, and performance optimizations tailored for mobile use cases
- Collaborate closely with iOS, Android, QA, product, and design teammates to deliver high-quality features
- Participate in code reviews and peer reviews to maintain engineering quality and consistency
- Help evolve the mobile backend service and propose innovative technical solutions using Kotlin
- Support the delivery of a reliable, scalable, and user-friendly mobile experience for Wrike customers
Your Qualifications:
- 4–6 years of software development experience using Java, Spring, MyBatis, PostgreSQL, and Maven
- Production experience building backend systems and services
- Good understanding of backend architecture, SOLID principles, and REST APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and API design
- Ability to keep solutions simple, scalable, and maintainable
- Strong communication skills in English
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- At least 1 year of production experience with Kotlin is preferred
Standout Qualities:
- Experience working closely with mobile engineering teams
- Experience working in global or distributed teams
- Background in SaaS products or enterprise software
- Proactive approach to technical decision-making and implementation
- Ability to identify weaknesses in current solutions and suggest meaningful improvements
- Strong collaborative mindset and willingness to partner across teams to achieve shared goals
- Positive attitude that contributes to a fun, productive, and supportive team environment
Team Dynamics:
You will join a cross-functional mobile team made up of iOS, Android, and backend engineers, QA specialists, a product manager, and a designer, with additional support from UX researchers and content writers. The team is distributed across multiple locations, with Prague and India serving as primary hubs. You will work closely with teammates across disciplines to build and improve mobile capabilities that help Wrike users stay productive wherever they are.
Our Work Style:
Our mobile organization values close cross-functional collaboration, continuous improvement, and a strong focus on user experience. The team primarily uses Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS, and we are actively leveraging Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform, with several features already running successfully in production. The backend service for mobile (BFF) is built in Kotlin and acts as a middleware layer between Wrike’s core backend and the mobile application. We also place a strong emphasis on quality through extensive UI testing integrated into our CI/CD pipeline. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of backend and mobile development in a modern, evolving technical environment.
Why Join Wrike?
- 28 calendar days of paid vacation
- Sick Leave Compensation (5 Paid Uncertified Sick Days)
- Parental Leave: 18 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity
- 2 Volunteer Days
- Health Insurance (Employees + Dependents)
- Life Insurance Plan
- Utility Allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)
- Fitness Plan (800 EUR/year)
- Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
What’s Next?
- Interview with a Recruiter 30mins
- Technical interview 105 mins
- Cultural interview 90 mins
Your recruitment buddy will be Aleksandar Chernev, Senior 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 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.
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