The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain JetBrains extensions for an AI coding platform, owning full product development from definition to improvement, ensuring user feedback and performance.
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Who are we?
We're Bee Talents, an IT recruitment agency that has been helping clients from all around the world in building their technical teams since 2015. Today, we would like to invite you to participate in the recruitment process for Kilo Code.
Kilo Code is an open-source platform orchestrating AI coding agents, supporting over 500 models from different providers and serving 1.5M+ developers globally. The platform processes 30T+ tokens monthly and is ranked #1 on OpenRouter, competing with tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor. The team consists of 30-35 people worldwide (engineers with 10+ years of experience each) based in the US and EU. Kilo’s culture is fast-paced and built around full ownership: engineers are “mini CEOs” responsible for end-to-end development, direct user feedback, and measurable impact. The company emphasizes speed, transparency, and collaboration, continuously releasing 1-2 major features per week.
Now, we’re looking together for a Senior Software Engineer who will take full ownership of the JetBrains ecosystem area and build features for an open-source AI coding platform.
What Kilo Code can offer you:
🎯 Role: Senior Software Engineer (JetBrains ecosystem)
💰 Salary: 37 000-47 000 PLN net B2B (negotiable, PLN or USD)
⏱ Working hours: Flexible between CET ↔ US West Coast
👩💻 Working mode: 100% remote
🇬🇧 Speaking language: English
The biggest challenge in Senior Software Engineer role:
Building and maintaining the JetBrains extension end-to-end, taking full ownership from problem definition, implementation, to production usage and iterative improvement, while ensuring real impact on user adoption and performance.
Daily tasks:
- Building and shipping features for the JetBrains extension end-to-end (from problem definition to production release).
- Designing solutions with AI coding agents and implementing critical parts manually when needed.
- Taking full ownership of a product area, including performance, usage metrics, and iteration.
- Interacting directly with users, gathering feedback, and improving shipped functionality.
- Making independent technical and product decisions in a high-autonomy environment.
- Collaborating asynchronously with a distributed team and contributing to rapid release cycles.
What you’ll need?
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Experience building JetBrains plugins (commercially or as a side project).
- Experience working with AI coding agents or AI-assisted development workflows.
- Solid understanding of end-to-end product development (design, implementation, deployment, iteration).
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and operate with high ownership.
- Very good command of English (C1+).
What you’ll get?
- Salary of 37 000-47 000 PLN net B2B (negotiable, PLN or USD) with the possibility to adjust based on experience.
- Working in a fast-scaling, open-source AI coding platform with all the advantages such an environment offers: autonomy, ownership, flexibility, fast decision-making, and close collaboration with the team.
- Creating a meaningful product used by 1.5M+ developers globally, improving workflows and adoption of AI coding tools.
- Being part of a fully remote, distributed team across Europe and the US West Coast timezone, with occasional quarterly offsites and hackathons.
Sounds interesting? Let’s talk! :)
Recruitment stages:
1. 30-minute initial call with Recruiter Kaja Antczak from Bee Talents.
2. 60-minute 1:1 call with Co-founder & VP Engineering from Kilo Code.
3. 25-minute live coding technical interview.
4. 30-minute final call with the CEO.
5. Probation period: 3-5 full-time days working within Kilo workflow.
6. Offer call with Kilo Code.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- Experience building JetBrains plugins
- Experience with AI coding agents or AI-assisted development workflows
- Solid understanding of end-to-end product development
- Very good command of English (C1+)
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The Company
What We Do
We support IT companies, corporations and start-ups in terms of team building, developing HR marketing strategy, as well as acquiring IT specialists. We've conducted several hundred job interviews, learning how to select the best candidates, who will be able to contribute to an organization. Professionally, we value efficient communication and acting according to the GTD method the most. The experience gathered working in the event, education and IT industries has taught us how to combine and utilize available resources in order to efficiently reach goals set before us
