Technical Product Manager (IntelliJ Scala Plugin)

<p>At JetBrains, we care deeply.

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developer tools and the code-writing experience

The Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA helps developers work with Scala every day.

• Supporting that experience means understanding real-world development workflows, staying close to user needs, and continuously improving the tools developers rely on.

</p> <p>We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to help improve IntelliJ IDEA’s Scala support.

This is a hands-on role focused on understanding developer needs and turning them into practical product improvements.

You will work closely with engineers, experiment with modern Scala projects and tooling, analyze user feedback, investigate pain points in areas such as build systems, debugging, and code insight, and test ideas through prototypes and direct user interaction.

</p> <p>Our goal is to provide developers with a reliable and productive environment for working with Scala and its ecosystem.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys developer tools, understands technical trade-offs, and likes improving products through close collaboration with both users and engineers.

In this role, you will:

• Own the product vision for the Scala plugin, ensuring it provides fast, correct, and trustworthy IDE support that evolves with the language.
• Analyze product usage statistics and run a consistent pipeline of user interviews to ground decisions in real workflows.
• Use IntelliJ IDEA with the Scala plugin daily – dogfooding features, catching regressions, and validating the developer experience first-hand.
• Maintain and develop reference projects that serve as showcases for new features, material for conference demos, and a living test bed for DX quality.
• Own and continuously adapt the plugin roadmap for short-term release goals, mid-term initiatives, and longer-term projects related to the Scala ecosystem.
• Align plugin planning with Scala compiler releases and IntelliJ ...