Software Engineer Java / React

Huxley; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley is seeking an experienced Freelance Software Engineer to join an agile engineering team focused on building scalable customer-facing products and services. You will design, develop, and deploy modern software while collaborating with Product Owners, Software Engineers, and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes clean code, system ownership, and continuous improvement across backend and frontend work, with responsibilities spanning from architecture discussions to production operations and

Qualifications

• Five plus years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java.
• Strong hands-on experience with React.
• Experience building scalable software applications in production environments.
• Experience with automated testing methodologies and quality engineering practices.
• Understanding of system ownership, monitoring, observability, and production operations.
• Experience with incident management and root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of software architecture and systems design principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Java and React.
• Write clean, scalable, and reusable code following engineering best practices.
• Refactor and improve existing applications, services, and frameworks.
• Ensure application quality through automated testing and CI practices.
• Maintain data security, integrity, and quality standards.
• Own services end to end, including monitoring, deployment, and production support.
• Define and monitor application metrics and respond to performance issues.
• Participate in incident management activities and root cause analyses.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and challenge design decisions.
• Evaluate and implement scalable software solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritise and deliver initiatives.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase engineering efficiency.
• Support continuous delivery practices and experimentation frameworks.

Skills

Java

React

Automated testing

System ownership

Production operations

Incident management

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Freelance Software Engineer to join a high performing engineering team focused on building scalable customer facing products and services.

In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, deployment, and operation of modern software solutions while working closely with Product Owners, Software Engineers, and other stakeholders.

You will be responsible for delivering high quality software, enhancing system reliability, and supporting technical initiatives that drive business value.

The ideal candidate combines strong backend and frontend engineering expertise with a passion for clean code, system ownership, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Java and React.
• Write clean, scalable, and reusable code following engineering best practices.
• Refactor and improve existing applications, services, and frameworks.
• Ensure application quality through automated testing and continuous integration practices.
• Maintain data security, integrity, and quality standards.
• Own services end to end, including monitoring, deployment, and production support.
• Define and monitor application metrics and respond proactively to performance issues.
• Participate in incident management activities, root cause analyses, and post mortems.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and challenge technical design decisions when needed.
• Evaluate and implement scalable software solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to prioritize and deliver technical initiatives.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase engineering efficiency.
• Support continuous delivery practices and experimentation frameworks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong hands on experience with Java.
• Strong hands on experience with React.
• Experience building scalable software applications in production environments.
• Experience with automated testing methodologies and quality engineering practices.
• Understanding of system ownership, monitoring, observability, and production operations.
• Experience with incident management and root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of software architecture and systems design principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Comfortable participating in an on call rotation.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience working within large scale product organizations.