🚀 We’re Hiring: Team Lead – AI-Native IDE & Developer Tools
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands | Hybrid | Full-time, Permanent
We are looking for a senior IDE / Developer Tools expert to join a new research team in Amsterdam and help shape the next generation of AI-native developer tooling.
This is not a traditional engineering management role. You will join as a founding technical leader, building and leading a small team of senior experts focused on the future of IDEs, AI coding agents, and human–AI developer workflows.
You will have significant ownership in defining technical direction, exploring emerging technologies, and turning promising ideas into prototypes and future product directions.
What You Will Do
- Lead the technical vision for next-generation AI-native IDEs and developer experiences
- Explore how AI agents and human developers can collaborate within modern development environments
- Track and evaluate developments in IDEs, developer tools, and agentic coding systems, including Claude, Cursor, Trae, Google Antigravity, and other emerging products
- Develop proof-of-concept prototypes and demos to validate new technologies and ideas
- Produce technology scouting reports and technical recommendations to support future investment and product decisions
- Hire, mentor, and lead a small team of senior technical experts
- Build relationships with universities, research institutes, startups, and industry experts
- Work closely with international teams to translate research and emerging technologies into future product direction
Who Are We Looking For?
We would particularly like to speak with senior engineers, technical leads, architects, or research leaders with strong hands-on experience in:
IDE Development | Developer Tools | Developer Experience | Agentic Developer Tooling
Required:
- Proven hands-on experience in IDE development, developer-tools development, or agentic harness engineering
- Team leadership experience, including leading engineers or researchers, participating in hiring decisions, and taking ownership of technical direction
- Strong understanding of developer experience and what makes developer tools effective, practical, and user-friendly
- Ability to bridge research and product, technical details and strategic direction
- Strong written and spoken English
- Based in or willing to relocate to Amsterdam
Nice to Have
Experience in one or more of the following would be highly relevant:
- IntelliJ Platform / PSI
- Language Server Protocol (LSP)
- Code intelligence
- Compiler toolchains
- Build systems and developer infrastructure
- AI coding assistants / coding agents
- LLM integration into developer workflows
- Context engineering and agent orchestration
- Evaluation and verification of AI-assisted development systems
- Experience working across international and distributed technical teams
- An existing network within the developer-tools, research, startup, or technology community
- Interest in building world-class developer tools for an emerging mobile operating system
Deep technical expertise remains at the heart of this role.
What We Offer
- A highly competitive compensation package
- Relocation allowance for candidates relocating for the position
- Annual performance bonus
- Attractive short-term and long-term incentive programs
- The opportunity to join a newly established research team and play a key role in shaping the future of AI-native developer tools
If you have built IDEs, developer tools, or AI-powered coding systems and are interested in helping define what the next generation of software development could look like, I’d be very happy to connect.
📩 Feel free to message me directly for a confidential discussion.