IDE Engineer (Senior/Staff)

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.

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.

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