We’re expanding the IntelliJ Ultimate team — the group responsible for delivering world-class development experiences for enterprise Java and Kotlin projects. Our work powers the seamless integration of frameworks and libraries like Spring, Quarkus, and Hibernate, and enables millions of developers to build, debug, run, and deploy complex enterprise applications with confidence and productivity.
We’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of core functional areas within IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. The successful candidate will join a team of highly skilled engineers dedicated to evolving the IDE’s capabilities for professional Java and Kotlin development.
In this role, you will:- Take end-to-end ownership of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate features and subsystems related to enterprise frameworks, build tools, runtime configurations, and application servers.
- Design and implement advanced tooling for Java, Kotlin, Spring, and related ecosystems.
- Collaborate closely with other senior engineers and tech leads to ensure architectural consistency and technical excellence in all areas of IntelliJ IDEA.
- Drive innovation and usability improvements in large-scale, production-grade developer tools.
- Contribute to maintaining IntelliJ IDEA’s reputation for quality, reliability, performance, and developer delight.
- Strong expertise in Java and Kotlin, with a deep understanding of the JVM.
- Solid experience with the Spring ecosystem and/or other popular enterprise frameworks and libraries, including their configuration, deployment, and runtime models.
- A proven track record of working on complex systems, large-scale codebases, or developer tooling.
- The ability to design, maintain, and evolve clean, extensible, and well-architected software.
- A genuine interest in IDE internals, language tooling, and improving the developer experience.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — you’ll work with top engineers and multiple IntelliJ IDEA subsystems.
- Shape the future of enterprise development tooling in one of the world’s most advanced IDEs.
- Work on technologies that directly impact millions of professional developers.
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the developer tools industry.
- Enjoy broad technical ownership and opportunities for architectural influence.
- Receive top-tier compensation and benefit from a flexible work environment.
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JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools consistently used and trusted by 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Our lineup of more than 30 products includes IDEs for most programming languages and technologies, such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and others, as well as products for team collaboration, like YouTrack and TeamCity. JetBrains is also known for creating the Kotlin programming language, a cross-platform language used by more than 5 million developers worldwide yearly and recommended by Google as the preferred language for Android development. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and has offices around the world. JetBrains IDEs * IntelliJ IDEA (Java and Kotlin Developers) * PyCharm (Python developers) * PhpStorm (PHP developers) * GoLand (Go developers) * Rider (.NET developers) * CLion (C and C++ developers) * Rust Rover (Rust developers) * WebStorm (JavaScript & TypesScript developers) * RubyMine (Ruby and Rails developers) * DataGrip (Tool for multiple databases) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * Fleet (Multilingual IDE and code editor) * Aqua (IDE for test automation engineers) .NET & Visual Studio: * Rider (IDE for .NET developers) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * ReSharper C++ (Visual Studio Extension for C++ developers) * dotCover (.NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool) * dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler) * dotTrace (.NET Performance Profiler) * dotPeek (.NET decompiler and assembly browser) Team Tools: * TeamCity (Powerful CI out of the box) * YouTrack (Project management for all your teams) * Space (Intelligent code collaboration platform) * Datalore (Collaborative data science platform) * Qodana (Code quality platform for teams) Programming Languages: * Kotlin (Programming Language for the JVM and Android) * MPS (Create Your Own Domain-Specific Language) Education: * JetBrains Academy (Learn and Teach Computer Science) Profile by JetBrains s.r.o.
