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JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. Its products are used by more than 15 million users and over 300,000 companies to solve complex problems and improve engineering productivity with AI at scale.

• Define and drive the long-term evolution of Kotlin infrastructure together with the Technical Lead;
• Own planning and prioritization across infrastructure initiatives, balancing immediate needs with long-term investments;
• Drive initiatives that improve development productivity and the developer experience across the Kotlin engineering ecosystem;
• Support engineers through coaching, feedback, and hiring;
• Participate in cross-team collaboration to evolve the Kotlin infrastructure and engineering platforms;
• Guide the evolution of infrastructure supporting Kotlin development, including developer experience across local development, code review, CI, and merge workflows;
• Guide Kotlin build architecture and build performance improvements;
• Guide CI/CD systems, release infrastructure, artifact publication, and engineering workflows;
• Guide internal tooling, engineering automation, and development infrastructure management;
• Guide secure engineering infrastructure, including dependency management, reproducible builds, secrets, access management, build agents, and development environments.

• Experience leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives;
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align multiple stakeholders;
• Experience with developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, or internal engineering platforms;
• Understanding of software build systems and engineering workflows at scale;
• Ability to evaluate technical proposals, facilitate architectural discussions, and help teams converge on pragmatic decisions;
• A passion for improving developer productivity through tooling, automation, and platform development;
• An engineering mindset that values systemic efficiency and developer empathy over rigid processes;
• Autonomy to make decisions close to the problem and accountability for the team’s choices;
• Commitment to quality and refusal to cut corners on platform stability for short-term fixes;
• Resilience to guide teams through open-ended, complex scaling challenges;
• Nice to have: TeamCity, Gradle and Kotlin build scripts, Kotlin or the JVM ecosystem, large monorepositories, internal developer platforms or developer experience tooling.

• Competitive base salary reflecting skills and experience;
• Flexible work schedule with the option to work from home or from the office;
• Extra time off;
• Conferences, courses, and language classes;
• Relocation support;
• Free meals and snacks;
• On-site gyms or sports club stipends.