IntelliJ IDEA Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used IntelliJ IDEA
Daniel S.
Last position:
AI Automation in E-Commerce at Looops
- AI automation roadmap for a D2C/B2B e-commerce company.
- Customer service bot with RAG over support tickets and product data, OCR pipeline for incoming invoices with writeback to Business Central, lead gen and posting automation.
- Deterministic n8n workflows with EU-hosted models.
- n8n, RAG / Mistral, Qwen/BGE embeddings / Business Central API, HubSpot, Shopify / Scaleway, S3 / Claude Code, OpenCode.
Michael L.
Last position:
IAM Developer & IT Architect at Internationale Bank
Design and implementation of new functionalities in the areas of Lifecycle Management (LCM), Role Management (RLM) and Access Governance
Adjustment of the company-wide Segregation of Duties (SoD) matrix to ensure regulatory and internal compliance requirements
Further development and configuration of recertification processes
Creation and adaptation of custom workflows, rules and tasks in SailPoint IdentityIQ (BeanShell, XML, Java)
Use of static code analysis with SonarQube to ensure code quality and compliance with defined development standards
Regular code reviews within the development team to ensure quality, share knowledge and follow clean code principles
Work in an agile Scrum team with daily communication, sprint planning and reviews
Coordination with testers, test managers and business departments to ensure quality and smooth production rollout
Active involvement in release planning and deployment coordination, including test preparation, cutover activities and rollback strategies
Analysis and sustainable resolution of issues in the IAM production environment (2nd- and 3rd-level support)
Reproduction of complex errors, identification of root causes and implementation of lasting fixes
Creation of technical analyses and recommendations for operations and further development
Ãœsame T.
Last position:
Java Backend Developer at Porsche Informatik
- Java EE 8 development
- Java 21 and Spring Boot 3 microservices development
- Release management
- Onboarding of new team members
- Owner of an team-internal "Best Code Engineering Award"
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
Vladislav F.
Last position:
Senior Test Automation Engineer / Test Manager at Stadt Wien – WUKSEA
- Creating test scenarios, manual test cases and test data using boundary value analysis and equivalence classes
- Executing functional and non-functional tests (manually with Postman and web application, automated with WebDriver, JUnit and NUnit)
- Setting up, automating and maintaining the test automation framework with Java, Spring Boot, Selenium and Cucumber in IntelliJ (system, regression, smoke, UI and integration tests for web front-end and SOAP API backend interfaces)
- Automating backend NUnit test cases in Visual Studio
- Test management: developing and implementing test strategy and test plans, controlling tests, quality ownership and prioritizing risk-based tests, as well as maintaining documentation in Confluence
- Detailed analysis and quality assurance of requirements
- Creating and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, ensuring quality in build & deployment
- Close collaboration with business analysts, developers, testers and test management
- Identifying, creating and tracking defects/bugs, with thorough test documentation
- Reporting test results and defect reports
- Monitoring test processes and continuous improvements
- Reviewing test data and test results in PostgreSQL database via pgAdmin
- Supporting effort estimation and backlog prioritization
- Analyzing and debugging development code System environment: Java, JUnit, Spring Boot, Selenium, Cucumber, JavaScript, Jenkins, C#, NUnit, Postman, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, xRay, pgAdmin, PostgreSQL, SonarQube, Maven, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, CI/CD, SOAP API interfaces
Nedim K.
Last position:
Manual Tester and Test Automation Engineer at IT-Systemhaus der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Design appropriate test cases to verify the GUI in Azure Test Plans
- Creation and execution of manual test cases
- Test design for user stories to be implemented in the current sprint
- Analysis of deviations/bugs based on log files and Kibana dashboards
- Creation of bug tickets with error description, screenshots, and short videos
- Prioritization of open bug tickets together with the PO
- Retest of bugs and hotfixes
- Execution of manual tests to ensure a 100% fulfillment rate of all functional requirements
- Selection, installation, and maintenance of a test automation tool (Selenium)
- Implementation of automated regression tests
- Continuous expansion of the object repository and adaptation of automated test cases (acceptance, integration, and system tests)
- Creation of test logs before each sprint change
Christian M.
Last position:
Senior Feature Engineer - Banking at start.me app e.U.
- Requirements engineering & business analysis
- Architecture responsibility for core banking extensions
- Interface modeling for third-party systems (TiGital, ESA, ÖNB)
- AML, KYC & payment reporting
Stefan M.
Last position:
Software consulting and development at An Austrian bank
Further development, configuration and operation of DOXiS, a document management system at a large financial services company. Development of a document interface as a REST API to integrate with third-party systems using the Java Spring Framework. Programming client scripts in Visual Basic, as well as workflow and agent scripts in Groovy.
Javid A.
Last position:
B2B Contract - Senior Fullstack developer (Java + Angular)
- Project: E-Platform with 100k users
- Skills: Java, Spring, Spring Boot
- TechStack: Angular 18, Java 17, Spring Boot, Oracle DB, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, Oracle, Postgres, SQL
Aaron H.
Last position:
Career Break
- Big move, focus on DIY hobbies, small personal software projects.
Monji M.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at AMA Wien
IT concept
Implementation
Estimation
Design
Installation
Oracle APEX applications for farmers in Austria to register their products and get subsidies.
Implement new applications or adapt existing applications according to customer requirements (CR)
Fix bugs
Update data in the database
Install applications
Technologies/methods used: Oracle DB, PL/SQL, DM, Oracle Apex, JavaScript, CSS, OpenLayers, GIT
Cédric M.
Last position:
Senior Tester at Public Sector
- Analysis, design and implementation of acceptance tests
- Test execution and reporting
- Defect reporting and retesting
- Tools: Xray, Jira, Confluence, OpenText Content Server, Scrum
Daniel Z.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at Zlabit e.U.
- Fullstack Developer with expertise in Java
- Expertise in Angular16+
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Statistics of experts using IntelliJ IDEA
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
82%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using IntelliJ IDEA
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
IntelliJ IDEA experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (79%)
- Banking and Finance (57%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Telecommunication (43%)
- Transportation (36%)
- Education (21%)
- Agriculture (14%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
The Premier IDE for Modern JVM Environments
IntelliJ IDEA, built by JetBrains, serves as the central integrated development environment for enterprise software engineering. Teams rely on this flagship tool to construct mission-critical services in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Groovy. Its intelligent code analysis, dynamic refactoring tools, and precise navigation allow technical teams to maintain clean architectures across distributed codebases.
Core Capabilities and Ecosystem Tooling
- Deep static code analysis and structural search-and-replace inspections
- Native integrations with build orchestrators like Gradle, Maven, and Bazel
- Robust debugging, memory profiling, and coverage tools for runtime diagnostics
- Full Spring Boot, Quarkus, and Micronaut framework ecosystem support
- Advanced Git workflow management and interactive rebasing capabilities
Custom Plugin Development and Internal Tooling
Organizations frequently commission custom plugins to enforce internal compliance, automate boilerplate generation, or connect proprietary APIs directly into editor workflows. Specialists utilize the IntelliJ Platform SDK to construct language extensions, custom tool windows, and bespoke AST parsers. These internal integrations save engineering teams hundreds of collective hours on routine tasks.
Driving Efficiency Across Austrian Tech Hubs
Enterprise teams in Vienna, Linz, and Graz depend on modern development stacks to power digital banking, automotive tech, and industrial automation. Deploying specialists with advanced environment knowledge ensures rapid onboarding, consistent code styling, and automated workspace orchestration across localized and distributed teams. This discipline eliminates configuration drift between local machines and continuous integration pipelines.
Signs Your Organization Needs Dedicated Expertise
- Developer workstations suffer from slow indexing and heavy memory consumption
- Migration projects to modern Java versions or Kotlin require automated refactoring
- Teams lack unified run configurations and shared code inspection profiles
- Onboarding times lag due to manual SDK and toolchain setup procedures
Attributes of Premier Development Specialists
Distinguished professionals treat their development environment as an automated powerhouse rather than a simple text editor. They master keyboard-driven navigation, write custom inspections, and diagnose native memory leaks with embedded async profilers. Their proficiency elevates baseline software craftsmanship across the entire engineering department.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around IntelliJ IDEA.
Companies engage specialists when building custom internal plugins using the IntelliJ IDEA SDK or when optimizing developer productivity across large engineering departments. These professionals also lead complex code migrations, configure shared team inspection profiles, and resolve severe memory and indexing bottlenecks on large enterprise codebases.
While lightweight editors like VS Code excel at quick edits, IntelliJ IDEA provides unmatched static analysis, semantic awareness, and deep refactoring capabilities for JVM ecosystems. Compared to Eclipse, JetBrains delivers superior integration with modern frameworks like Spring Boot and first-class native support for the Kotlin language.
A qualified IntelliJ IDEA professional typically possesses profound mastery of Java, Kotlin, Gradle, and Maven, alongside deep familiarity with the Java Virtual Machine. Many also bring hands-on experience in containerized development with Docker, continuous integration automation, and profiling tools like JProfiler or the built-in JetBrains profiler.
Yes, plugins designed using the underlying IntelliJ Platform SDK can usually be adapted easily or deployed directly to adjacent JetBrains IDEs such as PyCharm, WebStorm, and GoLand. An experienced JetBrains specialist structures plugins to maximize compatibility across the entire desktop product suite.
Developing robust plugins for IntelliJ IDEA requires senior-level familiarity with the platform's Virtual File System, Program Structure Interface (PSI), and background threading models. Freelancers taking on plugin engineering must understand how to avoid blocking the Event Dispatch Thread to prevent editor UI freezing.
Review whether the candidate has published public plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace or contributed to open-source developer tooling. Strong professionals can effortlessly explain complex AST manipulation, custom inspection rules, and advanced profiling techniques for high-throughput enterprise applications.
Most specialists working in Austria operate via remote contracts, but many readily accommodate hybrid setups for clients based around Vienna, Graz, or Linz. Local enterprise clients often value on-site presence during initial architectural reviews and team enablement workshops, followed by structured off-site execution.
Proficiency in English is universally standard for technical implementation and code documentation, but fluency in German is often requested by traditional enterprises and public-sector institutions in Austria. Engaging bilingual specialists ensures smooth collaboration between internal IT departments and external project stakeholders.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 734 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects, 82% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 64% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are Information Technology (79%), Banking and Finance (57%), and Insurance (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (86%), and Quality Assurance (57%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used IntelliJ IDEA
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Vienna Graz 
Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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