Staff Software Developer - IntelliJ Platform (Remote-friendly)

JetBrains; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible work location

Remote work abroad up to 30 days/yr

Lunch/midday meals allowance

Medical insurance allowance

Learning and development opportunities

Language classes

On-site gym or sports stipend

Internal company events

Job summary

JetBrains is seeking a Staff Software Developer to join the IntelliJ Platform team. Based in Amsterdam and other locations, you will influence core platform architecture, tooling APIs, and cross‑location collaboration to deliver innovative IDE features.

You will drive large-scale refactoring in monorepos, enhance API deprecation processes, and contribute to high‑performant, scalable development environments using Java/Kotlin.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform architecture and systems design.
• Strong understanding of JVM concurrency.
• Knowledge of Kotlin coroutines.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
• Critical thinking and architectural foresight.
• Ability to organize and perform large-scale refactoring in monorepos.

Responsibilities

• Drive the plugin development ecosystem (internal and external) for remote development and UI tooling by defining clear, minimal APIs, drafting documentation, and shaping the team’s definition of done.
• Re-architect several core subsystems to meet modern needs, including making settings flexible and portable across machines (remote or dev-provisioned environments).
• Organize and implement processes related to the deprecation cycle for the IntelliJ Platform API.

Skills

Platform architecture

JVM concurrency

Kotlin coroutines

Technical writing

Architectural foresight

Monorepo refactoring

Job description

JetBrains is seeking a Staff Software Developer to join the IntelliJ Platform team. Based in Amsterdam and other locations, you will influence core platform architecture, tooling APIs, and cross‑location collaboration to deliver innovative IDE features.

You will drive large-scale refactoring in monorepos, enhance API deprecation processes, and contribute to high‑performant, scalable development environments using Java/Kotlin.