{"id":939404,"url":"https://alion.io/job/freeday-software-engineer","title":"Software Engineer","company":{"id":674405,"name":"Freeday","domain":"freeday.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/freeday","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Recruitee","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Rotterdam, Netherlands"],"countries":["NL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":58000,"max":77700,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":89196},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Django","optional":false},{"name":"Django REST Framework","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Voice Agents","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-15T08:31:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-15","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T14:30:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":138,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":138},"description":"Software Engineer\nAt 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.\nNow 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.\nWhat you’ll do\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nYour days might look like this:\nTurning client and implementation team input into scoped engineering work\n\nBuilding backend features, integrations and platform improvements\n\nWorking mainly with Python and Django, while touching other parts of the stack when needed\n\nWriting clear technical designs, ADRs or product notes that others can understand\n\nJoining discussions with product, design, implementation and engineering\n\nBuilding integrations with systems like Salesforce, Microsoft Graph, Apaleo or Zendesk\n\nHelping ship client-specific projects without turning everything into custom work\n\nKeeping the product practical, scalable and useful in the real world\n\nWhy Freeday\nWe 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.\nYou’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.\nWhat you’ll get from us\nA role with real influence where you can see the direct impact of your work\n\nA team full of smart and driven people\n\nA solid salary, pension plan, laptop and travel allowance\n\nAn office five minutes from Rotterdam Central\n\nSpace to grow, experiment and make mistakes because that is how you learn\n\nRegular drinks, fun team moments and plenty of laughs along the way\n\nRequirements\nWho you are\nYou 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.\nYou 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.\nYou probably recognize yourself in this:\nYou have around 3 to 5 years of professional engineering experience\n\nYou are strong in backend development, ideally with Python\n\nExperience with Django or Django REST Framework is useful, but not a must\n\nYou have worked on product features, not only technical tickets\n\nYou can explain previous work in terms of the problem, the user and the trade-offs\n\nYou write clearly and can document technical choices in a way others understand\n\nYou are comfortable working with ambiguity\n\nYou like talking to people outside engineering to understand what is really needed\n\nComfortable using tools like Cursor, Claude Code or similar agentic coding tools\n\nYou speak English fluently\n\nYou are based in the Netherlands and can work from our office regularly\n\nNice to have\nExperience with AI, LLMs, agents, prompts or evals\n\nExperience with GCP, Postgres, Grafana or basic ops\n\nExperience in a SaaS or scale-up environment\n\nExperience with conversational AI, chatbots or voice agents\n\nDutch communication skills are a plus, but not required\n\nThis role is probably not for you if\n\nYou prefer to only work on deep backend, platform or infra problems\n\nYou need fully written Jira tickets before you can get started\n\nYou want to specialize deeply in one technical layer\n\nYou prefer research over shipping real product improvements\n\nInterested?\nCheck out www.freeday.ai or send us a message. 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