Team Leader - TeamCity, Build Tools Integration

At JetBrains, development is our passion. Since launching the TeamCity project 20 years ago, we’ve been striving to build the most powerful and effective CI/CD tool on Earth. By automating routine checks and supporting developers, DevOps engineers, QA specialists, and project managers, TeamCity accelerates production and frees teams to grow, discover, and create.

TeamCity is a core part of our Orchestration Tools department – a feature-rich, highly available CI/CD service. Every day, TeamCity runs millions of builds for fintech companies, game studios, medical software providers, and many others. Our features serve everyone – even astronomers rely on TeamCity.

The Build Tools Integration team focuses on tools like Maven, Gradle, NPM, .NET, and more. These integrations form the foundation of CI/CD processes, helping teams customize pipelines, gather insights, and generate reports with ease.

• Looking inward: Thanks to these integrations, TeamCity provides market leading test reporting, issue analysis, and build problem detection. To do so, we often need to dive deep into the internals of the operating system and get to grips with the specifics of the software and hardware stacks used.
• Looking outwards: We develop customer-facing features like recipes (our way of packaging the shareable pieces of build pipelines). A customer-oriented mindset means we pay a lot of attention to ideation, product planning, and analysis, and we are open about everything we do.

At JetBrains, we value developers and their contribution to our success. We do not limit developers to just “doing the code.” You will participate in system design sessions, product planning, reviews, and market analysis to the extent you are willing to.

• Coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team through one-on-ones, clear expectation setting, and regular performance reviews.
• Set and track quarterly OKRs, monitor SLA adherence, and ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
• Build a cohesive and collaborative team culture across time zones, fostering knowledge sharing and recognition.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, DevOps engineers, QA, stakeholders, and senior developers to deliver on the roadmap.
• Improve workflows continuously, adopt best practices, and drive automation and data-driven decision-making.
• Stay engaged in hands-on work – from designing solutions to contributing to software architecture, also acting as a technical coach.
• Contribute to the product roadmap, participate in feature design, and help assess new technologies.

• Substantial experience with Java (or .NET) and prior experience leading a development team.
• Strong interest in and up-to-date knowledge of modern build tools and development ecosystems (Maven, Gradle, NPM, .NET, etc.).
• Proven track record of making a major impact within mature teams (either as an individual contributor or team lead).
• Excellent problem-solving skills with experience implementing innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse colleagues including managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Clear understanding of product management and its role in the software development lifecycle.

• Experience in both people and project management across distributed teams.
• Background in CI/CD services, large-scale build systems, or orchestration tools.
• Hands-on experience making contributions to open-source projects in the build tools ecosystem.

• The opportunity to lead a team working on one of the most impactful CI/CD products in the industry.
• A flexible role where you can grow into all aspects of leadership with strong learning and mentorship opportunities.
• A collaborative, innovative, and knowledge-sharing culture, where your ideas directly influence the product roadmap.

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