Team Lead Kotlin Infrastructure

Day to day, you will:

Engineering leadership

• Define and drive the long-term evolution of Kotlin infrastructure. Provide technical leadership.
• 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.

Infrastructure platform

• Guide the evolution of infrastructure supporting Kotlin development, including:
• Developer experience across local development, code review, CI, and merge workflows.
• Kotlin build architecture and build performance.
• CI/CD systems, release infrastructure, artifact publication, and engineering workflows.
• Internal tooling, engineering automation, and development infrastructure management.
• Secure engineering infrastructure, including dependency management, reproducible builds, secrets, access management, build agents, and development environments.

What you’ll bring

• An engineering mindset that values systemic efficiency and developer empathy over rigid processes.
• The autonomy to make decisions close to the problem and accountability for the team’s choices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to navigate architectural debates and align diverse engineering stakeholders.
• A commitment to quality and refusal to cut corners on platform stability for short-term fixes.
• The resilience to guide teams through open-ended, complex scaling challenges.

What you’ll need

• Experience leading engineering teams and 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.
• Experience with the following technologies would be nice to have:
• TeamCity.
• Gradle and Kotlin build scripts.
• Kotlin or the JVM ecosystem.
• Large monorepositories.
• Internal developer platforms or developer experience tooling.

Why join JetBrains?

• Strong base salary – We offer competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.
• Flexible work schedule – Enjoy the freedom to work from home or from the office.
• Extra time off – More days to relax, recharge, and do the things you love.
• Learning and development opportunities – Access to conferences, courses, and language classes.
• Relocation support – Assistance to help make your move as smooth and stress-free as possible.
• Free meals and snacks – Lunch and refreshments provided to keep you fueled.
• Health and wellness – On-site gyms or sports club stipends.
• Internal events – Company-wide celebrations and team gatherings.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.

If this approach to engineering leadership matches your style, we would love to receive your application.

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