Team Lead, Kotlin Infrastructure

🕒 September 21

🌐 Germany, Netherlands, +3 more countries – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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📋 Description

• Lead the Kotlin Infrastructure team at JetBrains. • 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 developer experience across the Kotlin engineering ecosystem. • Support engineers through coaching, feedback, and hiring. • Participate in cross-team collaboration to evolve Kotlin infrastructure and engineering platforms. • Guide developer experience across local development, code review, CI, and merge workflows. • Guide Kotlin build architecture and build performance. • Guide CI/CD systems, release infrastructure, artifact publication, and engineering workflows. • Guide internal tooling, engineering automation, and development infrastructure management. • Secure engineering infrastructure, including dependency management, reproducible builds, secrets, access management, build agents, and development environments.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • Experience with TeamCity would be nice to have. • Experience with Gradle and Kotlin build scripts would be nice to have. • Experience with Kotlin or the JVM ecosystem would be nice to have. • Experience with large monorepositories would be nice to have. • Experience with internal developer platforms or developer experience tooling would be nice to have.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.

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