Perform the following steps to develop a Spark application on IntelliJ IDEA with SBT:

1. Add the sbt-idea plugin.
2. Add SBT to the global plugin file:

        $ mkdir /home/hduser/.sbt/0.13/plugins
        $ echo addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltone" % "sbt-idea" % "1.6.0" ) > /home/hduser/.sbt/0.12/plugins/plugin.sbt

3. Alternatively, you can add the SBT plugin to your project as well:

        $ cd <project-home>
        $ echo addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltone" % "sbt-idea" % "1.6.0" ) > plugin.sbt

IDEA is ready for use with SBT.

Now you can develop the Spark code using Scala and build it using SBT.