Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. JetBrains is a company passionate about creating effective developer tools. They are seeking a Customer Success Engineer to assist engineering teams in adopting Kotlin for backend applications, focusing on guiding migration and integration processes.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Ability to design and guide Kotlin adoption strategies for backend applications
- Experience designing backend systems using common architectural patterns (e.g., monolith, modulith, microservices)
Benefits
- 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.
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