Senior Backend Engineer (ML Team)

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.   

Ready to become a Wriker?

Do you thrive on collaborating with intelligent colleagues to tackle complex product and technical challenges? Are you eager to explore a broad range of technologies and engage in knowledge sharing? At the ML Team, our mission is to integrate the power of AI into our product, driving innovation as a core part of our company strategy. We offer a hybrid work schedule, team-building activities, and a fantastic office location to support your growth and success.

More about Your team

The ML Team integrates AI technology into Wrike with a mission to simplify our customers' lives by automating routine tasks and unlocking their creativity. Our key focus areas include Search, Smart Suggestions, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) to process and generate work-related data. The team is composed of front-end and back-end engineers, QA specialists, data scientists, a product manager, a designer, and an engineering manager, with members based in both Prague and Cyprus. 

We collaborate closely within our team and with other product teams to achieve the company's goals. Our approach is heavily experiment- and feedback-driven: we introduce a variety of AI-based features in different capacities to find growth opportunities for our key metrics. This makes us highly customer-focused and requires a strong understanding of the business.

How You’ll make an impact

• Integrate AI-Based Functionality: Collaborate with other teams to bring AI-driven features from concept and design through to implementation and experimentation.
• Adapt and Scale Solutions: Ensure that the solutions developed are adaptable and scalable to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
• Productionize Data Science Prototypes: Take our Data Scientists' experiments and prototypes and transition them into production-ready solutions.
• Maintain Technical Excellence: Focus on building the right solutions with high technical quality, ensuring robust and reliable implementations.
• Contribute and Grow: Bring your unique expertise to the team, continuously learning new skills and helping others grow in their roles.
  
  

You will achieve your best if you have

• Strong Technical Skills: Extensive experience with Java, REST, SQL, and unit/integration testing frameworks.
• Relevant Experience: At least 7 years of experience in software development, or a Master's degree with 5 years of experience.
• Expertise in Storage Solutions: Proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).
• Passion for Technology: A keen interest in new technologies and a desire to apply them in practical ways.
• Product Team Experience: Previous experience working within a product team.
• Advanced Communication Skills: Strong ability to articulate ideas and contribute effectively in team meetings in English.
• Self-Organized Team Player: Demonstrated proactiveness in improving technical foundations and delivery processes, with a clear understanding of the customer problems being solved, beyond just deploying code.
  
  

You will stand out with

• Experience with Quick Experiments: Proven ability to work on and manage rapid experimentation.
• Leadership in Small Tracks: Capable of leading smaller project tracks or initiatives effectively.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical abilities to handle complex scopes, especially when running multiple experiments simultaneously.

 

Perks of working at Wrike

• Health insurance for you and your family 

• SIM card with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment) 

• 21 paid vacation days 

• 5 uncertified sick days per year 

• 10 fully-paid working days of sick leave per year 
• School allowance of up to €600 per month (for children at school age) 

• Up to 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave 

• 2 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. Enhanced four weeks of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service 

 

Your recruitment buddy will be Pavel Kucera, 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 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 

💡  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, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.