Engineering Manager

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:

Shape the Future of Intelligent Work at Wrike - At Wrike, we're reimagining collaborative work with intelligent, agentic systems that empower teams to work smarter, faster, and with greater autonomy. Our platform will be the foundation for next-generation AI-driven workflows, transforming how millions of users interact with Wrike every day. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in Wrike's most ambitious initiative to date—shaping the future of intelligent work for millions. We are searching for an Engineering Manager who excels at driving outcomes, offers deep technical expertise, and thrives on developing high-performing teams. If you are passionate about engineering excellence, innovation, and making real impact, you'll thrive in our strong engineering culture committed to quality and continuous growth - with clear paths for leadership and technical growth.

Your Impact:

• Deliver real business outcomes: Build fast, impactful solutions that solve customer problems, boost Agentic platform adoption, and drive operational efficiency.
• Lead a high-performing team: Guide and grow a mature, autonomous engineering team focused on building Wrike's agentic platform.
• Drive technical vision: Shape the architecture and execution of a scalable platform supporting intelligent, multi-step agents and AI-powered workflows.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Partner with ML and data engineers, product managers, and UX to ensure platform capabilities align with Wrike's product vision.
• Mentor senior talent: Foster a culture of autonomy, technical excellence, and continuous learning within your team.
• Champion engineering best practices: Promote end-to-end ownership, high code quality, observability, and secure development.
• Balance vision and delivery: Align long-term platform strategy with short-term priorities, ensuring steady progress and high standards.

Your Qualifications:

• Technical mastery: Deep experience with distributed systems, modern web architectures, SaaS platforms, and cloud-native development.
• Proven leadership: 3+ years managing engineering teams in product-driven environments, with a record of delivering complex, high-impact releases.
• Architectural expertise: Comfortable with architectural debates, platform APIs, and integrating AI/LLM-based components.
• Organizational savvy: Skilled in roadmap planning, cross-team alignment, and resource management to balance innovation with delivery.
• Influence & empathy: Strong soft skills to inspire, challenge, and develop senior engineers, and to build trust across teams.
• Pragmatic delivery: A results-oriented mindset that balances innovation with operational reliability and security.

Standout Qualities:

• AI & Agentic systems acumen: Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features, agent-based architectures, and ML-driven workflows.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Direct experience working with data science, ML, or AI teams.
• Innovative execution: Concrete examples of driving technical innovation and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Engineering ownership: Enthusiasm for end-to-end platform ownership and scaling engineering processes.
• Commitment to excellence: Passion for continuous team development, code quality, and robust DevOps practices.

Team Dynamics:

You'll lead and grow a highly skilled, cross-functional team of seasoned engineers who value ownership, technical excellence, and autonomy. Together, you will collaborate closely with some of the brightest minds in machine learning, product, and design to help shape Wrike's AI capabilities and deliver impactful solutions. At the heart of Wrike's platform transformation, your team works in a fast-paced environment where cross-functional partnership, innovation, and end-to-end ownership are core to everything we do.

Why Join Wrike?

• 28 calendar days of paid vacation
• Sick leave compensation
• Life insurance plan
• Health insurance plan
• Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
• Parental leave
• 2 volunteer days
• Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
• Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)

Your recruitment buddy will be Veronika Repková, Talent Sourcing Team Lead

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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 model for team members near our office hubs in San Diego, Prague, Dublin, Nicosia, and Tallinn, with 2–3 in-office days per week to foster collaboration and teamwork. 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, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, , Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike. 

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