Software Engineer, Rotterdam

Software Engineer 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 skills, flows, integrations, coaching loops, admin tooling and the portal experience around it. 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.

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

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

Building integrations with systems like Salesforce, Microsoft Graph, Apaleo or Zendesk

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 understand

You are comfortable working with ambiguity

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 tickets before you can get started

You want to specialize deeply in one technical layer

You prefer research over shipping real product improvements

Interested? Check out or send us a message. We would love to hear from you.

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