--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer at Wrike' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-wrike-nicosia-gsy91rsfn1qz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Staff Software Engineer at Wrike - **Company:** Wrike - **Location:** Nicosia, Cyprus - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-01-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wrike/jobs/4655331005 ## Job description 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. Wrike is our people, not a place. As a distributed team, we own our growth, stay globally connected, and rely on the product we build to deliver impactful work alongside brilliant minds. You'll have real ownership over meaningful work, a global team that has your back, and the flexibility to do your best work your way. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Our vision:  A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. About the Role: Wrike’s Backend Reliability (BRE) team is the backbone of our backend infrastructure and the guardian of our uptime. Our mission is to achieve and sustain 99.99% availability while building the tools, components, and safety nets that the entire engineering organization relies on. As a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer on this team, you won’t just close tickets - you’ll architect core reliability solutions that shape how Wrike scales, performs, and recovers from failure. Your Impact: - Design, build, and maintain critical reliability components such as HTTP rate limiters, internal DB schema migration tools, circuit breakers, and distributed Redis-based caching. - Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize PostgreSQL usage, and ensure our distributed systems remain performant and stable under high load. - Lead preliminary investigations during severe production incidents: identify likely root causes, assess impact, and propose mitigation options. The long-term fixes are then implemented by the owning team, based on your findings. - Create scalable, reusable tools and frameworks that help other engineering teams build more resilient services. - Leverage AI-powered tools and coding agents to accelerate development, analyze architectures, and automate repetitive or error-prone tasks. - Influence reliability best practices across engineering by sharing knowledge, reviewing designs, and setting high technical standards. Your Qualifications: - 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. Standout Qualities: - 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. Team Dynamics: 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. Our Work Style: 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. Benefits & Perks: - 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 What’s next? - Interview with a Recruiter - Technical interview - System Design Interview - Cultural interview Your recruitment buddy will be [Aleksandar Chernev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandar-chernev-479785214/), Senior Technical Recruiter. ## #LI-AC1 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](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wrike/life/3fd588bf-73e8-47be-9b0a-1933d404ea88/), [Company culture page](https://www.wrike.com/wrike-company-culture/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wriketeam), [Wrike Engineering Team](https://www.wrike.com/wrike-engineering/), [Medium](https://medium.com/wriketechclub), [Meetup.com](https://www.meetup.com/WrikeTechClub/?_cookie-check=wtgfN9ARYGPSGd3e), [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/c/wriketechclub) for a feel for what life is like at Wrike. https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Wrike-EI_IE420969.11,16.htm ## About Wrike ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wrike provides AI-powered enterprise work management software that helps teams plan, collaborate, and execute projects across departments. - **Entity Type**: Private (operating as an independent entity since 2022; previously part of Citrix; total funding of $26M from early rounds) - **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, United States - **Founded**: 2006 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed (company was founded by a team; current leadership includes CEO Thomas Scott) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Project management software, collaboration software, productivity software - **Target customers**: B2B, serving over 20,000 organizations globally, including enterprise, mid-market, and SMB teams - **Mission**: To enable everyone to do the best work of their lives through collaborative work management ## Products & Services - **Wrike**: A cloud-based work management platform offering task management, workflow automation, Gantt charts, resource management, real-time dashboards, and reporting. Available on web, iOS, and Android in 9 languages. - **Wrike AI (Work Intelligence®)**: AI-powered features that automate subtasks, provide recommendations, predict outcomes, and reduce mundane work using the platform’s industry-leading data model. - **Wrike Datahub**: Centralized data management for cross-functional insights. - **Klaxoon (acquired 2025)**: A suite of visual collaboration tools including whiteboarding, interactive workshops, and structured execution, integrated into Wrike to redefine enterprise collaboration. - **Wrike Integrate**: Native integration engine connecting Wrike with hundreds of apps (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $140M (LinkedIn data, 2025) Total funding: $26M across 3 prior funding rounds - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Earlier investors include Bain Capital Ventures (from Series A round); current partners through ecosystem integrations (e.g., HubSpot App Marketplace, Citrix ecosystem) - **Growth Signals**: - Acquired Klaxoon in 2025, adding visual collaboration capabilities - Launched GenAI tools (Work Intelligence®) in 2024 - Opened new offices in Bangalore (2023), Nicosia (2022) and expanded to 10 global hubs - Over 2 million users and 215,000+ users in its largest account - More than 100 million tasks completed in Wrike ## Competitive Advantages - **AI‑First Platform**: Wrike AI leverages a deep, industry‑specific data model to offer predictive analytics, automated workflows, and intelligent recommendations – a moat built on years of structured project data. - **Enterprise‑Grade Security**: ISO certified, Wrike Lock encryption, and dedicated data centers in the US and Europe, appealing to regulated industries. - **Unified Collaboration**: The acquisition of Klaxoon creates a unique combination of structured project management and visual, real‑time collaboration – a differentiator vs. standalone PM or whiteboarding tools. - **Global Scale & Localization**: Supports 9 languages, operates in 140 countries, with 10 global hubs ensuring enterprise readiness worldwide. - **Integration Ecosystem**: Deep native integrations with hundreds of business tools, including HubSpot, Salesforce, and Slack, reducing switching costs for customers. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand AI Capabilities**: Continue embedding generative AI (GenAI) and predictive analytics across the platform to reduce manual work and improve decision‑making. - **Deepen Visual Collaboration**: Integrate Klaxoon’s whiteboarding and workshop tools into Wrike’s core workflows to capture the full “idea‑to‑outcome” lifecycle. - **Cross‑Departmental Adoption**: Target enterprise accounts by enabling seamless project management across marketing, professional services, IT, and operations. - **Global Growth**: Leverage hubs in APAC (India, Japan, Australia), EMEA (Cyprus, Czechia, France, Estonia, Ireland) and the Americas to support distributed teams and local market needs. ## Why Work Here - **Flexible Work Model**: Wrike supports remote, hybrid, and co‑working setups across 10 global hubs. Roles typically require four hours of overlap with a primary region (e.g., Americas EST/PST, EMEA GMT/CET, APAC local). - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes customer‑focus, collaboration, creativity, and commitment. Employee‑led resource groups include Wrikers of Color, Women of Wrike (WOW), Wrike with Pride (LGBTQIA+), Wrike Wellness Collective, and SERVE (social/environmental volunteering). - **Engineering Excellence**: Over 250 engineers; Wrike TechClub encourages knowledge sharing and peer learning. Mentorship programs and internal mobility promote career growth. - **Benefits**: Competitive pay, healthcare (medical/dental/vision), retirement savings (401k, pension), generous paid time off, parental leave, two paid volunteer days per year, and home‑office support. - **Global Community**: 1,000+ employees across nearly every time zone; structured hiring process (3–5 weeks) with a focus on reducing bias and assessing potential. ## Sources 1. [wrike.com/company](https://www.wrike.com/company/) – About page, leadership, history, global hubs, diversity groups 2. [wrike.com/jobs](https://www.wrike.com/jobs/) – Careers page, open roles, culture, values, FAQs on remote/hybrid, benefits 3. [wrike.com/wrike-company-culture](https://www.wrike.com/wrike-company-culture/) – Company culture overview 4. [wrike.com](https://www.wrike.com/) – Homepage, product features, AI capabilities, customer numbers 5. [linkedin.com/company/wrike](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wrike) – LinkedIn company page (revenue, employee count, funding) ## Other roles at Wrike - [Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence & Positioning](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-manager-competitive-intelligence-positioning-wrike-united-states-bvsvw7j8tx33) — United States - [Director, Global GTM Strategy & Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/director-global-gtm-strategy-operations-wrike-united-states-v6erbjdznqkf) — United States - [Inside Sales Representative AMS [13:30 - 22:00 CET]](https://feeny.ai/job/inside-sales-representative-ams-13-30-22-00-cet-wrike-prague-d0rvptz9bpc3) — Prague, Czech Republic - [Partner Account Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/partner-account-manager-wrike-tokyo-9exz1g4dy9t9) — Tokyo, Japan - [Senior DevOps Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devops-engineer-wrike-prague-nex7ahzp5pgz) — Prague, Czech Republic - [Group Product Manager [Klaxoon]](https://feeny.ai/job/group-product-manager-klaxoon-wrike-ireland-2da0naejgxa4) — Ireland - [Group Product Manager [Klaxoon]](https://feeny.ai/job/group-product-manager-klaxoon-wrike-poland-z6yv8bsxfd0h) — Poland - [Group Product Manager [Klaxoon]](https://feeny.ai/job/group-product-manager-klaxoon-wrike-germany-tavdcjhw6vfg) — Germany - [Group Product Manager [Klaxoon]](https://feeny.ai/job/group-product-manager-klaxoon-wrike-spain-qtctbzvp2xgk) — Spain - [Staff Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-wrike-lithuania-fx48r1j9k5fb) — Lithuania