JetBrains is a software company founded in Prague in 2000 by three Russian software developers - Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov, and Eugene Belyaev - originally under the name IntelliJ Software. Today the company employs over 2,800 people across multiple offices worldwide and is best known for building integrated development environments (IDEs) and programming languages used by more than 15 million developers globally.
Its first product, IntelliJ IDEA, established JetBrains as a serious force in Java development by offering deep code context analysis and intelligent assistance. The company has since expanded into a broad suite of language-specific IDEs, including PyCharm for Python and WebStorm for JavaScript, among others. JetBrains also created Kotlin, a modern programming language that has become Google's preferred language for Android development.
The company's work spans several technical domains:
- Integrated development environments across multiple languages and platforms
- Intelligent code assistance and code context analysis
- Programming language design
- Android and mobile development tooling
- Developer productivity tools
JetBrains states its mission as making software development a more productive and enjoyable experience. The company operates as a global organisation with a distributed team, serving developers across a wide range of industries and technical disciplines.