IDE Engineer (Senior)

B2B21 000 - 27 000 PLN NET

LOCATION + Remote Poland: Kielce, Kraków, Wrocław

VirtusLab is a leading European software consulting and engineering company, home to over 350 EU-based professionals. Our mission is to craft clean code and practical solutions with precision and purpose. We foster a dynamic culture rooted in strong engineering, a sense of ownership, and transparency, empowering our team. As part of the expanding VirtusLab Group, we offer a compelling environment for those seeking to make a substantial impact in the software industry within a forward-thinking organization.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to work on IDEs such as PHPStorm, RubyMine, or core plugins within the JetBrains ecosystem. Your role will entail implementing new features, maintaining clean and testable code, reviewing contributions, and collaborating with a passionate team. You will have opportunities to influence the plugin’s or IDE’s direction and improve the experience for many developers.

Kotlin Advanced

Multithreaded Programming Advanced

Plugin Development (IntelliJ) Nice to have

Kotlin coroutines Nice to have

English Advanced

Project

IDE's

The project focuses on building and enhancing IDEs and core plugins within JetBrains platform that powered well-loved IDEs like IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand, PHPStorm, RubyMine and more. It involves implementing support for technologies and languages like PHP, Ruby, Scala, Bazel or Kotlin by working deeply with their ecosystems. The goal is to deliver stable, high-quality tools that improve the daily workflows of developers.

Tech stack

Kotlin, Java, Kotlin Coroutines, technology specific to the IDE/Plugin (e.g Ruby for RubyMind)

Your future team

The core team consists of experienced engineers focused on specific JetBrains IDEs or plugins, working primarily with Kotlin. They collaborate closely with external contributors and users to deliver stable, high-quality developer tools.

Project

Android Plugin for IntelliJ

Project scope

We are responsible for maintenance of Android Plugin for JetBrains IDEs. The team has two objectives: keep plugin up to date with changes in IntelliJ and Android Studio a mostly increase autimatization and reduction of technical depth. Additionally, team will need to create a suite of integration tests to cover most important path and automate manual testing. Our team cooperates closely with teams at JetBrains (Kotlin Multiplatform) and Google (Android Studio).
Team is working on tooling for development of android applications – not applications themselves!

Tech stack

The plugin is primarily written in Kotlin, with some legacy Java code. The IDEs use a customised version of Swing, and the code often uses Kotlin coroutines. Team will relay heavily on Git (including automation based on it). Work will tracked on Youtrack and tested on Teamcity. As team is building tools for developing applications for Android, some experience with developing mobile applications would be beneficial

Challenges

Reducing tech debt and build up automation and test coverage to reduce manual work and the time between releases. Team will need to design a flow that is tided to IntelliJ, Kotlin Multiplatform and Adroid Studio releases

Team

3 IDE engineers, QA engineer and TPM

What we expect in general

5+ years of experience in Kotlin development
Good understanding of concurrency, preferably Kotlin Coroutines
Experience with extending IDEs or any GUI Java frameworks
Experience with working on compiler or code analysis tools is a plus
English at B2 level or higher
Passion for improving developer tools and open-source software

A few perks of being with us

Building tech community

Flexible hybrid work model

Home office reimbursement

Language lessons

MyBenefit points

Private healthcare

Training Package

Virtusity / in-house training

And a lot more!

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IDE Engineer (Senior)

B2B21 000 - 27 000 PLN NET

LOCATION + Remote Poland: Kielce, Kraków, Wrocław

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