Software Engineer

Freeday; Randstad; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and pension plan

Laptop provided

Travel allowance

Office near Rotterdam Central

Job summary

Freeday in the Netherlands is seeking a Software Engineer to build the product behind our digital employees. You will own backend features in Python/Django, collaborate with product and design, and help turn ideas into practical, scalable software.

You bring 3–5 years of professional engineering experience, strong backend skills in Python, and a product-focused mindset. You’ll work closely with clients and internal teams to ship meaningful improvements while solving complex problems with

Qualifications

• You are a software engineer with strong backend capabilities and a product mindset.
• You will turn vague problems into shippable features and own parts of the product from idea to delivery.
• You communicate clearly and document technical choices for the team.

Responsibilities

• Turn client and implementation team input into scoped engineering work.
• Build backend features, integrations and platform improvements.
• Write clear technical designs, ADRs or product notes for others to understand.
• Join discussions with product, design, implementation and engineering to ship client projects.
• Keep the product practical, scalable, and useful in the real world.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Django REST Framework

Product thinking

English fluency

Tools

Django

Cursor

Claude Code

Postgres

GCP

Grafana

Job description

At Freeday, we build digital employees that automate repetitive work so people can focus on what really matters. Our AI platform helps companies streamline processes, connect systems and bring intelligent automation to life.

Now we’re looking for a Software Engineer who wants to build the product behind those digital employees. Someone who enjoys solving real client problems, understands the product behind the code and knows how to turn messy ideas into clear, shippable work.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer, you’ll join our Digital Employee Management Platform squad. This is the part of Freeday that helps clients configure, coach and manage their digital employees. Think giving digital employees experiences, giving insight into their performance, tracking automatically where the gaps are, but also making setup easy and intuitive.

You bring product sense, client empathy and engineering ownership. You understand what clients are trying to achieve, translate that into practical technical solutions and help decide what we should build, configure or leave for later. Some might call you a product engineer.

This is not a role where tickets are handed to you fully written out. You’ll be involved earlier in the process. You’ll ask questions, shape ideas, write things down clearly and then help ship the solution.

Your days might look like this:

• Turning client and implementation team input into scoped engineering work
• Working with our conversational experts and turning their work and insights into a useful feature in our digital employee management platform.
• Writing a bet and convincing our Head of Product that we need it now.
• Building backend features, integrations and platform improvements
• Working mainly with Python and Django, while touching other parts of the stack when needed
• Writing clear technical designs, ADRs or product notes that others can understand
• Joining discussions with product, design, implementation and engineering
• Helping ship client-specific projects without turning everything into custom work
• Keeping the product practical, scalable and useful in the real world

Why Freeday

We are a Rotterdam based tech scale-up with big ambitions and a team that loves building things that matter. We prefer working together at the office because the best ideas often start at the coffee machine or in front of a whiteboard.

You’ll join a curious group of people who like solving real problems and learning every day how to get better at it. No big egos. No corporate nonsense. Just people who want to build meaningful products together.

What you’ll get from us

• A role with real influence where you can see the direct impact of your work
• A team full of smart and driven people
• A solid salary, pension plan, laptop and travel allowance
• An office five minutes from Rotterdam Central
• Space to grow, experiment and make mistakes because that is how you learn
• Regular drinks, fun team moments and plenty of laughs along the way

Who you are

You are a software engineer who cares about more than just the code. You want to understand why something is being built, who it helps and whether it actually solves the problem.

You like working on product questions, but you still enjoy engineering. You can take a vague problem, ask the right questions and turn it into something clear enough to build. You are pragmatic by default. You do not overcomplicate things when a simple solution gets us moving.

You probably recognize yourself in this:

• You have around 3 to 5 years of professional engineering experience
• You are strong in backend development, ideally with Python
• Experience with Django or Django REST Framework is useful, but not a must
• You have worked on product features, not only technical tickets
• You can explain previous work in terms of the problem, the user and the trade-offs
• You write clearly and can document technical choices in a way others understandYou are comfortable working with ambiguity and the associated freedom.
• You like talking to people outside engineering to understand what is really needed
• Comfortable using tools like Cursor, Claude Code or similar agentic coding tools
• You speak English fluently
• You are based in the Netherlands and can work from our office regularly

Nice to have

• Experience with AI, LLMs, agents, prompts or evals
• Experience with GCP, Postgres, Grafana or basic ops
• Experience in a SaaS or scale-up environment
• Experience with conversational AI, chatbots or voice agents
• Dutch communication skills are a plus, but not required

This role is probably not for you if

• You prefer to only work on deep backend, platform or infra problems
• You need fully written Jira tasks before you can get started
• You want to specialize deeply in one technical layer
• You prefer research over shipping real product improvements (backed by research if needed)