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Timo H.
Last position:
Software Developer at Smiths Detection
- Extension of a Swing-based UI for recording Security Restricted Articles during baggage screening.
- Introduction of a new workflow for recording Deboarding Events.
- Extension of the reporting system for Security Restricted Articles and Deboarding Events.
- Implementation using JBoss Wildfly, PostgreSQL, spring-boot 3.x, Java 8/21, Swing, JSF, JAX-RS/Resteasy, Docker, Maven, Kiro.
Christian W.
Last position:
Lead Developer & Performance Specialist at Groox GmbH
Sole responsibility for the design, development and deployment of the bilingual Qwik platform eventvideo.at. Responsible for frontend performance optimization (PageSpeed 97/100/100/100), SEO engineering with Schema.org, integration of Google Search Console and IndexNow, and building the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Requirements gathering and technical implementation.
- Performance Engineering: Google PageSpeed Score 97/100/100/100 (Performance / Accessibility / Best Practices / SEO) through frontend optimization (lazy loading, thumbnail-first, lightweight media integration)
- Full-Stack Web Development: Sole responsibility for development with the Qwik.js framework from frontend to deployment for the bilingual (DE/EN) platform eventvideo.at, marketing personalized, fully automated participant videos for sports events
- Qwik.js Resumability Architecture: Server-side rendering with minimal JavaScript hydration overhead; the page remains immediately interactive even with extensive video and event content, without a full-page load.
- API Integration: Google Search Console API and IndexNow API for automated indexing and SEO monitoring
- SEO Engineering: Schema.org Structured Data implementation for rich snippets and improved search engine visibility
- Mobile-First with minimal bundle size: CSS3 layout without UI framework overhead, consistently lean use of resources for excellent PageSpeed on desktop and mobile.
- GitHub Actions CI/CD: Automated build, test and deployment pipeline for continuous integration
Technologies: Qwik.js Framework, TypeScript, JavaScript, Internationalization (i18n DE/EN), GitHub Actions CI/CD, Google Search Console API, IndexNow API, Schema.org, Google PageSpeed Insights, Lazy Loading, CSS3, Responsive Design
Marco S.
Last position:
MS Power BI Developer at Bayern Facility Management GmbH
Power BI development and administration, training, consulting, data modeling, DAX development
MS Fabric, MS Power BI, DAX
Viaceslav K.
Last position:
Self-employed Motivation Coach / Job Coach / DaF Coach at International Motivation Training (IMT) Deutschland GmbH
Self-employed Motivation Coach | Job Coach | DaF Coach
I offer individual motivation, job and language coaching for people who want to develop personally and professionally.
My services:
Motivation coaching: Strengthening self-confidence, self-motivation and personal skills.
Job coaching: Career guidance, job search and support when entering the job market.
Application coaching: Creating CVs and application documents and preparing for job interviews.
DaF coaching: Individual support to improve German skills for everyday life, work and integration.
Integration coaching: Supporting people with a migration background in their professional and social integration.
Activation coaching: Promoting personal initiative and reducing individual barriers to placement.
My goal is to motivate people to recognize their strengths, overcome language barriers and develop new professional perspectives.
Individual, practical, confidential and goal-oriented.
Coaching in German and Russian. In person or online by appointment.
Daniel S.
Last position:
AI Strategy & Use-Case Development at Umwelt Service Salzburg
- AI strategy concept and implementation roadmap for an energy consulting company.
- Use-case matrix with nine application scenarios (including funding research, chatbot, initial AI consulting, topic radar), implemented as reusable Claude Code skills.
- AI strategy, use-case analysis / Claude Code Skills / n8n.
Patrick B.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at On AG
- Since August 2025 I'm working on the Conversational AI team. We are developing an internal platform for the future of Conversational Ecommerce, powering other teams to use the Agents in their user experience. I'm deeply focused on the architecture of this project, with a particular focus on the monitoring and live evaluation of the agents.
- Played a pivotal role in business-critical operations, including Adyen client upgrades, multi-account configuration for app releases, domain migration support, and implementing a crucial BFCM hotfix to resolve a 10-minute update query (on the checkout workflow) that was blocking sales.
- Served as a key member of the On-Call rotation for over a year, leading >15 incidents, contributing to system stability, and enhancing distributed tracing via New Relic integration, deepening system-wide understanding and operational excellence.
- Conceived and delivered an MVP for a "Low Stock in Key Variants" (LSKV) index within two weeks as part of the Conversion Rate Taskforce, using statistical analysis of size curves to identify OOS products; this initiative led to a (0.9%) CVR improvement post-handover.
- Led major performance and stability initiatives, including a Ruby upgrade (YJIT, Jmalloc) that slashed average response times from 220ms to <100ms, and initiated an "Order Table Cleanup" project to manage 10M+ order records, ensuring SOX compliance and database health.
- Architected and delivered a scalable CloudFlare Worker solution for critical Apple Pay domain validation, mitigating operational risks and establishing a best-practice, automated workflow that was subsequently leveraged by multiple teams, demonstrating cross-functional impact
- Drove substantial evolution of the core e-commerce backend through consistent, high-impact contributions (130+ merged PRs), spanning critical feature delivery, complex system optimizations, and enhancing platform stability."
Jörg T.
Last position:
Consultant, Requirements Engineer and Database Expert
Project – Evaluation and development of databases for a new product line for a measuring equipment manufacturer
- Current-state analysis
- Requirements analysis of the data storage layer
- Writing benchmark tests
- Design of the new database schema
- Database migrations
- Development of audit logging and Part11
- Creation of backup and recovery concepts
- Design of the persistence layer API
- Writing unit tests
- Creating requirements in Azure
Tools: C#, Visual Studio 2022, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Git, RestSharp, WebServer, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite, MinIO, Podman, Docker, DataGrip, SQL Management Studio, HeidiDB, pgAdmin
Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
Mohamad K.
Last position:
Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants
- Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
- Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
- Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
- Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
- Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
- Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
- Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
- Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
- Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
- Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
Christian P.
Last position:
Power BI Developer & Consultant in an Agile Team (SAFe) at DB InfraGO AG
Further Development of the Integrated Capacity Management Platform InKa
Rail Infrastructure
- Power BI shared datasets and reports via DirectQuery on Amazon Redshift (timetable, construction and capacity data)
- Automated report testing with Playwright in Docker containers, version control with GitLab
- Concept and implementation of user communication (information page, changelog, known bugs)
Initial Situation:
The integrated capacity management platform (InKa) is a monitoring and analysis platform for data from timetable and capacity management: customer orders, infrastructure, timetable operations, construction, as well as route capacity and width. The data is stored and linked in a structured data warehouse. This makes it possible to create complex KPIs across different source systems and display current and future route utilization as well as construction activity across the network. The goal is to improve strategic, medium-term and intra-year planning and provide users with easy access to capacity management analyses.
Measures:
- Enablement: Introduction of Power BI with training and workshops for development teams.
- Consulting & Design: Problem analysis, concepts and solution consulting for reporting requirements; implementation of reporting solution plans.
- Data Model: Development of shared datasets with DirectQuery on Amazon Redshift and import tables; DAX measures for utilization and capacity KPIs.
- Development: Data analysis, data transformation and visualization in Power BI; extension and migration of business applications to Power BI; AI-supported development in VS Code with GitHub Copilot.
- Test Automation: Automated testing of Power BI reports with Playwright; setup of the test environment in Docker containers.
- User Communication: Concept and implementation of a central information page with hot news, changelog and known bugs, access from reports with report filters, updates via Power Automate.
- Deployment: Management of Power BI Deployment Pipelines across the DEV, TEST and PROD environments.
- Agile Working: Work in an agile team according to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework); refinement of user stories and features including effort estimates in Jira; version control with Git and GitLab.
- Quality & Documentation: Reviews for quality assurance, error analysis and resolution, technical documentation in AsciiDoc and Confluence.
Technologies: Power BI, DAX, Power Query, DirectQuery, Amazon Redshift, Git / GitLab, Deployment Pipelines, Playwright, Docker, AsciiDoc, Power Automate, Jira, Confluence, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, SAFe
Results:
- Capacity management KPIs from multiple source systems combined on one platform
- Transparency regarding current and future route utilization and construction activity across the network
- Easy access to analyses for users
- Automated regression testing of Power BI reports
- User communication implemented: central information page with hot news, changelog and known bugs, directly accessible from the reports
Octavian G.
Last position:
Oracle DWH Analyst at Infomotion Gmbh
Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle SQL, ITIL
Alexander S.
Last position:
Senior ABAP-OO Developer at Die Schweizerische Post AG
"ZLF – Future Billing Solution"
Cross-module S/4HANA
- Technical consulting and development in the area of S/4 Master Data Governance (MDG-BP)
- Various developments in HR-BP integration, order-to-cash, SAP CAR analytics data modeling, interfaces from and to third-party systems. (native HANA, CDS, RAP, Fiori Elements, OData)
Patrick L.
Last position:
Senior GenAI Fullstack Developer at SBH (Schulbau Hamburg)
Remote freelance role focused on Agentic AI strategy, secure application patterns, and reusable agentic workflows for a government agency.
- Development and implementation of an open-source Agentic AI strategy for a government agency, with a focus on GDPR, security, and self-hosted solutions
- Development of reusable agentic workflows and business applications that enable non-technical employees to solve business problems independently
- Implementation of nine business applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure PostgreSQL integration on Hetzner Linux servers
Techstack: Python, Streamlit, Anthropic SDK (Claude), Azure, Linux, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Angular
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Piotr C.
Last position:
Full Stack Software Developer at Meteomatics AG
- Created the MetX Assistant and was its primary driver from concept through production with real users; designed and oversaw telemetry and presented the system in demos.
- Built React, TypeScript and Python features for MetX, a scientific weather visualization platform; integrated internal data APIs and improved caching, request handling and rendering workflows.
- Contributed to company MCP tooling and led AI workshops and internal automation initiatives, including experiments connecting AI agents with Slack, Jira and Git.
- Acted as the team's Observability and DevOps subject matter expert, supporting service reliability, deployment workflows, monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Participated in Security, Observability and AI Communities of Practice.
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Software Developer statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years

Position duration
5.2 years

Positions per freelancer
12

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
6%

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 23 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for Software Developer
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 23 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Software Developer experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (92%)
- Manufacturing (40%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
- Automotive (37%)
- Retail (33%)
- Healthcare (31%)
- Education (30%)
- Professional Services (29%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the role
Build and ship
A software developer turns product needs into working code. The work can cover new features, bug fixes, refactoring, system integration, or full application builds. Typical deliverables include:
- Frontend, backend, or full-stack implementations
- APIs and service integrations
- Code reviews, debugging, and performance fixes
- Test coverage, deployment support, and documentation
Core skills
Strong developers write clean code and understand how software fits into a business process. They work with common languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, and Go, depending on the stack. They should also be comfortable with Git, CI/CD, databases, REST APIs, and testing practices.
A good developer does not just deliver code. They ask the right questions, spot edge cases early, and keep changes maintainable for the next person who touches the system.
Where they help
Companies bring in a freelance software developer when they need fast support without a long hiring cycle. That is common for product launches, legacy system upgrades, internal tools, customer portals, integrations, and urgent bug fixing. It also works well when a team needs extra hands for a sprint, a migration, or a specialist skill that is only needed for part of the project.
In Germany, many clients want someone who can work closely with in-house product, design, or engineering teams and communicate clearly in English or German, depending on the setup. Remote work is common, but on-site collaboration can help during architecture decisions, handovers, or tight delivery phases.
Good tools and stacks
The exact stack depends on the project, but strong candidates usually know how to move across the full development flow:
- Version control and code collaboration with Git
- Agile delivery with tickets, reviews, and sprint planning
- Databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB
- Cloud and deployment tools such as AWS, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Testing tools, logging, monitoring, and release workflows
What sets them apart
The best software developers are reliable under changing requirements. They keep code readable, protect existing functionality, and communicate trade-offs clearly. They can work independently, but they also fit into an existing team without creating extra overhead.
Look for proof of shipped features, stable maintenance work, and solid documentation. A strong freelancer can explain technical choices in plain language and show how their work reduces risk, speeds up delivery, or improves the product.
Hiring fit
Freelance software development is a good fit when scope is clear, the timeline is tight, or the need is temporary. It also helps when you want a specific skill set for one system rather than a general long-term hire.
- You need to start soon
- You have a defined feature, fix, or migration
- You want senior hands on an existing codebase
- You need extra capacity without expanding the team permanently
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Software Developer.
A Software Developer builds and improves applications, services, and internal tools. That usually includes writing new features, fixing bugs, connecting systems through APIs, and keeping the codebase maintainable. In many projects, the work also covers testing, deployment support, and technical documentation.
A strong software developer should write clean code, work with Git, and understand databases, testing, and deployment basics. The exact language or framework depends on your stack, but the person should be able to learn your system quickly and make safe changes. Good communication matters just as much as technical skill.
In practice, the terms software developer, software engineer, and programmer often overlap. Some companies use software engineer for roles with more system design or architecture work, while programmer is used more narrowly for coding. For freelance hiring, what matters most is the actual scope: build, maintain, integrate, or troubleshoot.
A freelance software developer makes sense when the work is project-based, urgent, or tied to a specific stack or system. It is also a good choice if you need senior support for a migration, release, or temporary capacity boost. If the need is ongoing and broad across many products, a permanent hire may be better.
Freelance software development works well for feature delivery, legacy modernization, API integrations, internal tools, and bug fixing. It is also useful for cloud setup, performance tuning, and short-term rescue work when a project is blocked. The best fit is a task with clear technical goals and defined handover points.
Look for evidence of shipped work, not just a list of technologies. A good software developer can explain trade-offs, show how they handle testing and code quality, and describe how they worked with product or design teams. Code samples, references, and a short technical conversation usually reveal a lot.
Most software development work can be done remotely if the team has clear communication and good tools. On-site time can help during discovery, kickoff, security-sensitive work, or when the codebase and stakeholders are tightly connected. The right setup depends on how much collaboration the project needs.
Prepare a clear scope, access to the relevant systems, and a short overview of the stack, goals, and blockers. A freelance software developer can move faster when they know the expected deliverables, who approves changes, and how the team handles releases. Good onboarding shortens the time to productive work.
The average hourly rate for Software Developer is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 726 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Software Developer, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 53% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Software Developer have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Software Developer are German (97%), English (96%), and French (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Software Developer are Information Technology (92%), Manufacturing (40%), and Banking and Finance (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Software Developer are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (92%), and Quality Assurance (51%).
FRATCH Software Developer main locations
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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