Remote Kotlin CSE at JetBrains - Work From Anywhere — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Location Flexibility: This role is listed as remote with hybrid office options in California and New Jersey, and the location hint indicates worldwide applicants are welcome. This makes it a strong candidate for a location-independent lifestyle — though some caveats apply.
Timezone & Schedule: The job description does not explicitly state required working hours, but customer-facing roles at companies with primarily US-based clients typically expect overlap with US business hours (EST/PST). Expect to maintain at least 4–6 hours of overlap with US East or West Coast time zones, which is manageable from Europe (Lisbon, GMT+1) but challenging from Southeast Asia (Bangkok, GMT+7) or APAC.
Salary vs. Cost of Living: The $96k–$180k USD range is highly competitive for a nomadic lifestyle:
- Lisbon, Portugal: Comfortable living on ~$2,500–$3,500/month; this salary leaves significant savings potential. Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa is well-suited.
- Bangkok, Thailand: Even the minimum salary dwarfs typical living costs (~$1,500–$2,500/month). Thailand's LTR Visa supports remote workers.
- Medellín, Colombia: Living costs ~$1,200–$2,000/month; Colombia's Digital Nomad Visa is available for up to 2 years.
Travel Perks: The role involves leading workshops, demos, and meetups, which may include sponsored travel. No explicit coworking or equipment stipend is mentioned, but JetBrains is a well-resourced company where such perks are common.
Headquarters: Foster City, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Remote, United States
At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started, back in 2000, we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.
We're now looking for a Customer Success Engineer (CSE) to help engineering teams successfully adopt Kotlin on the backend in real-world production environments.
Currently, this role is focused on adoption – helping Java teams introduce Kotlin into existing applications. You'll work directly with organizations to guide migration, integration, troubleshooting, and scaling, ensuring they move from initial experiments to successful production use.
In addition, you'll proactively communicate with prospective users to help them understand the Kotlin adoption process, as well as design and implement the migration path.
Responsibilities
- Track and maintain visibility into organizations and their stage of Kotlin adoption (e.g., not started, evaluating, experimenting, production)
- Proactively engage with organizations across different phases of their Kotlin adoption journey
- Develop and recommend high-level adoption strategies tailored to each organization's context
- Identify and document blockers that hinder progress and propose ways to address them
- Establish and manage feedback loops with development teams to ensure continuous alignment and improvement
We will be happy to have you on our team if you have:
Technical Expertise
- Extensive hands-on experience with Kotlin, Java, and the JVM ecosystem
- Proven experience migrating Java backend codebases to Kotlin
- Experience with the Spring (Boot) ecosystem or similar frameworks (e.g., Quarkus, Micronaut, Ktor)
- Solid understanding of build tools and project structuring, including Maven and Gradle
Communication and Customer Engagement
- Experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Developer Advocacy, or Technical Consulting
- Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken
- Ability to lead workshops, demos, talks, meetups, and other public-facing activities
- Comfort with outbound engagement, including identifying target companies, articulating value propositions, and building relationships with engineering teams
- Ability to effectively communicate with engineers, tech leads, and business stakeholders
System Design and Architecture
- Ability to design and guide Kotlin adoption strategies for backend applications
- Experience designing backend systems using common architectural patterns (e.g., monolith, modulith, microservices)
This range reflects the employer's good-faith estimate of the base salary it reasonably expects to pay for the position at the time of posting. Starting pay within the range will be determined based on job-related factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an annual bonus, commission, or other incentive compensation, subject to the terms of the applicable plan or program.
The base salary range (per year) for this position in the posted work location(s) is: $96,000 — $180,000 USD
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