Top Software Engineer Jobs in the Netherlands

Build and maintain Camunda 8 backend data-layer services spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Design scalable storage, query, retention, and streaming systems; improve performance, indexing, and production tooling. Lead engineering initiatives from solution design through delivery, collaborate across teams, provide L3 support, and participate in on-call rotations. Investigate production data issues and contribute to schema evolution, workflow automation, and CI improvements.

Develop and maintain Joybuy backend services for European retail markets, emphasizing high performance, availability, concurrency, security, scalability, and global integration. Mitigate technical risks, implement monitoring and rollback strategies, research and adopt new technologies, and collaborate with product teams across marketing, fulfillment, and supply chain.

Lead architecture and backend development for international core systems, ensuring high availability, concurrency, security, and scalability. Design Java/Spring Boot services, optimize performance, integrate MySQL/Redis/Kafka, manage technical risk, drive productization, mentor engineers, and coordinate with suppliers and product teams. Onsite role in London supporting European operations.

Ten-week software engineering internship building and shipping production code for Optiver's real-time trading systems. Work with mentors on projects to improve systems, tools and infrastructure, collaborate with engineers, traders and researchers, and learn trading fundamentals, testing, and deployment. Strong performers may receive full-time offers in London or Amsterdam.

Build scalable advertising and marketing technology platforms, applications, APIs, services, and data-integrated experiences for eBay. Lead technical design, architecture, development, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement for complex features. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, applied science, and ML teams; use AI-assisted development tools; make tradeoffs across scalability, availability, latency, and cost; and mentor engineers.

Design and build scalable advertising and marketing technology applications, APIs, and services using Java, Scala, and modern frontend and backend technologies. Own features end to end from architecture through production support, lead technical design and reviews, evaluate distributed-system tradeoffs, and collaborate with product, design, analytics, and ML teams. Apply AI-assisted development tools and contribute to LLM-powered marketing capabilities. Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, Agile delivery, and open-source collaboration.

Build and own end-to-end features across backend and frontend: design backend services and data models (Python/Django), implement RESTful APIs, create reusable frontend components (TypeScript/React), write tests, participate in code reviews, maintain production reliability and security, and collaborate with product and design.

Build and own backend-first Node.js services for an AI-powered legal platform, including authentication, authorization, user management, PDF export, and Redis-based chat delivery. Drive system stabilization, simplification, documentation, and continuous improvement while contributing to frontend work. Collaborate with product, frontend, UX, Scrum, administrators, and customer support teams in an end-to-end ownership environment.

Provide technical leadership for the Insurance Platform team, owning end-to-end policy lifecycle management, payment flows, and backoffice tooling. Design scalable platform abstractions that support new insurance products and country markets without custom integrations. Maintain operational health, evolve complex web applications and services, and translate product demands into reusable capabilities. Collaborate across product and engineering teams while applying domain-driven design, service-oriented architecture, observability, and AI-assisted development practices.

Build and maintain hardened Ubuntu-based container images and the automated CI/CD pipelines to build, test, scan, sign, publish, and retire them. Integrate upstream open-source projects, ensure security and cloud-native compatibility, collaborate with cross-functional teams, document and share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to hiring. Work in a distributed agile environment with occasional travel.

Build and optimize backend components and microservices for Netherlands-based clients. Transform monoliths to scalable microservices, deliver new features, implement REST services, work with SQL/NoSQL databases, write unit and integration tests, and deploy on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure). Collaborate in cross-functional Agile teams, take ownership of development, and work on long-term strategic projects (on-site when possible).

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll design scalable backend systems, optimize database performance, and collaborate with front-end and DevOps teams.

Contribute to Juju's development, collaborate with teams on distributed systems, debug issues, and enhance cloud automation features.

Own the full software development lifecycle for JetBrains identity and access services. Develop and operate reliable Kotlin-based services, with some Go, supporting authentication, authorization, organizations, memberships, groups, and workspaces. Design new platform features, improve existing production systems, review code, manage integrations, and address JVM and PostgreSQL performance in distributed, multi-tenant SaaS environments.

Software Engineers at QuantCo will design and develop scalable solutions, integrate models into client businesses, and improve products based on client feedback.

As an Ubuntu Core Software Engineer, you will design and implement features for the embedded Linux operating system, maintain boot mechanisms, debug system-level issues, and collaborate with a global team.

As a Software Engineer at Freeday, you'll develop features for the Digital Employee Management Platform, translating client needs into engineering work, focusing on backend development primarily using Python and Django, and collaborating with various teams to ship effective solutions.

Design and implement backend trading services, own features end-to-end (schema, API, tests, UI integration), contribute to real-time infrastructure and client-facing APIs, and write integration tests against real dependencies.

Full-stack Developers at QuantCo build user interfaces for machine learning solutions, collaborating with data scientists and engineers to deliver actionable products.

Own and evolve BlockTech’s self-hosted data infrastructure for trading systems, including low-latency ingestion, Kafka and NATS streaming, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Iceberg storage. Ensure data reliability through gap detection, repair, schema evolution, capacity planning, and failure handling. Partner with trading and research teams, lead projects from concept through production, establish technical standards, mentor engineers, and influence platform architecture.

Build and operate stateful streaming pipelines and Go services that process usage events into accurate, near-real-time billing data. Responsibilities include ingestion, validation, enrichment, pricing, storage integration, usage APIs, billing exports, failure recovery, idempotency, exactly-once processing, reconciliation, scalability, observability, and deployment ownership.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading architectural evolution across a distributed rendering platform, contributing to core backend systems, and improving performance, reliability, scalability, testing, and delivery practices. The role includes mentoring engineers through pairing and design reviews, unblocking teams, shaping technical strategy, improving CI/CD and tooling, and aligning engineering investments with product and business goals.

Design and build distributed backend services for the cloud monetization platform, focusing on correctness, consistency, scalable microservices, distributed transactions, and reliable asynchronous workflows. Influence system architecture, own service implementations, and collaborate across teams to support billing, reservations, payments, and revenue flows.

Build and maintain integrations for North's agentic platform, own the end-to-end integration pipeline, create evals and tests to ensure reliability, tune tool descriptions, and help other engineers add and maintain integrations while using AI responsibly to improve performance and quality.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.