JetBrains today announced a partnership with eSense to help government and enterprise organisations in Saudi Arabia strengthen their software-development capabilities, modernize engineering practices and adopt AI across the software-development lifecycle with greater visibility and control.
The partnership comes as Saudi Arabia continues to expand its technology sector under Vision 2030. According to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Kingdom’s ICT market has grown from SAR 105 billion prior to Vision 2030 to SAR 190 billion in 2025, while the number of jobs in the sector has increased from approximately 250,000 in 2018 to more than 406,000 in 2025.
AI adoption is also accelerating, with data from the General Authority for Statistics showing that 33.1% of establishments used AI technologies in 2025, rising to 61.1% among establishments in the information and communications sector. This growth is increasing the need for professional engineering tools and practices that can support the development, quality and governance of software at scale.
Founded in 2000, JetBrains is the global technology company behind widely used developer tools including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and Rider, as well as Kotlin, the open-source programming language. Its products help developers and organisations build, understand, test and deliver software more effectively, supporting the full software development lifecycle from coding and collaboration to continuous integration, code quality and deployment.
As a local JetBrains channel partner, eSense is a Saudi company, headquartered in Riyadh and serving the region, which brings more than two decades of experience delivering technology solutions to government and enterprise organisations. The Saudi-based company works with more than 200 government and enterprise customers, with capabilities spanning software engineering, Agile and DevOps delivery, cloud infrastructure, security, data and AI.
Through the partnership, eSense will help Saudi organisations select and adopt the JetBrains tools that best fit their engineering environments, while providing local expertise across licensing, implementation planning and team enablement. Together, the companies will support customers from assessing existing environments and defining technical requirements to improving development workflows, code quality, DevOps and continuous delivery. They will also help organisations introduce AI in ways that maintain engineering oversight.
JetBrains and eSense are already applying this approach to a strategic technology initiative supporting Saudi Arabia’s food-security priorities. The engagement combines JetBrains tools with eSense’s professional services and software engineering expertise to improve the maintainability, quality and reliability of software supporting complex operational requirements.
The company is already working with leading Saudi organisations, including SDAIA, stc Group, D360 Bank, Tamara, Tabby, and Cyberani by aramco digital and is looking to grow its presence in Saudi Arabia significantly as local software development scales up.
“Saudi Arabia has built the region’s largest technology market and one of its strongest digital talent bases. The next stage is about giving Saudi organisations the engineering capability to build, understand and maintain increasingly complex software for themselves,” said Nadia Rinsky, Head of Business Development for the MENA region at JetBrains. “AI can help teams produce more code, but producing code is no longer the hardest part. The real challenge is ensuring developers can understand what enters the codebase, verify it and remain accountable for the result.”
“This partnership brings together JetBrains’ deep expertise in code intelligence and professional software development with eSense’s knowledge of Saudi organizations, technology environments and delivery requirements,” she added. “We want to help customers strengthen the entire software development lifecycle – from the development environment and code quality to DevOps, continuous delivery and enterprise AI governance. This is about building lasting in-house engineering capability, not simply deploying another set of tools.”
“Saudi Arabia’s digital ambitions are raising the standard expected of the software behind government services and enterprise operations,” said Wisam Banat, Chief Executive Officer of eSense. “These systems must be secure, maintainable and capable of evolving as operational needs change. That requires more than access to technology: it requires strong engineering practices, local implementation expertise and teams that can take long-term ownership of what they build.”
“JetBrains has spent more than 25 years building tools around the real work of professional software teams. Combined with eSense’s local engineering, DevOps and professional-services capabilities, that gives customers a practical route to improving their development environments, code quality and delivery processes. It also helps them adopt AI without losing the human understanding and accountability on which dependable software ultimately rests.”
Through JetBrains AI Enterprise, organizations can make AI assistance available within the development environments their teams already use to write, understand, test and maintain code. Administrators can manage access through user profiles, determine which AI providers are available to different groups, control the number of enabled users, and review adoption and impact metrics. Developers remain able to inspect AI-generated suggestions and changes before deciding whether they should enter the codebase.
JetBrains AI Enterprise supports the JetBrains AI service and connections to OpenAI Platform, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock. Different supported providers can be made available to different user profiles, allowing organisations to configure AI-assisted development according to their technology architecture, security policies and cost requirements.
Saudi organizations can meet JetBrains and eSense at their joint LEAP 2026 booth in Hall 2, stand N10, or contact eSense to discuss JetBrains products and enterprise adoption requirements. LEAP 2026 runs in Riyadh until 3 September.
