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Khalid E.
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Karl F.
Last position:
ONECEPT Website at ONECEPT GmbH
Development and implementation of the website onecept.at using React/Next.js. Focus on responsive web design, high-performance component structure, basic SEO optimization, and technical deployment.
Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript / JavaScript
Marco S.
Last position:
Business Analyst, Data Warehouse Developer at NRW.Bank
Business analysis for risk controlling.
Development of a data warehouse based on MS SQL Server with data from the FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform (formerly Front Arena).
Implementation of ETL and transformation logic with T-SQL and Python (Jinja2 template engine).
Modeling and automation of data structures using Data Vault.
Development of reporting and analysis reports with Microsoft Power BI, including user training and onboarding.
Sascha B.
Last position:
Web Developer at GxPlex
- Built a customized MediaWiki instance, including installation, MySQL database, SSL, and automatic backups
- Set up user roles (Admin, Mod, Verified, User) and a permissions system
- FlaggedRevisions for editorial review workflows · Commenting and rating extensions
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.
Christoph P.
Last position:
ICT DevSecOps Engineer at Abraxas Informatik AG
Reduced time-to-market by optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Employees without customer VM access can now deploy. Increased system stability and performance and reduced maintenance effort through systematic database cleanup. Restricted rights for Flyway migrations versus service users. Improved transparency and decision-making basis with enhanced Grafana dashboards for response times, optimized logging, and standardization with Loki. Reduced security risks by consistently applying security best practices such as removing the public schema in PostgreSQL, individual service user permissions, and Docker security context. Facilitated knowledge transfer and sustainable process improvements by creating process diagrams and implementing various concepts. Conducted code reviews across multiple repositories.
Jens R.
Last position:
Platform Architect & Senior Developer at Direct client, industrial measurement technology, medium-sized company
- Technical leadership across hardware, firmware, and software teams; scope: hardware/firmware team (4 people) and leadership group (5 people)
- Consolidated and documented a product family that had grown over more than 15 years and aligned it with CRA compliance — from the bare-metal I/O module to the cloud interface.
- Provided the most important customer product with the essential requirements and architecture documentation within two months — for a firmware landscape that had grown over more than 15 years. It now supports the customer’s modernization strategy.
- Established a monthly reporting line to the supervisory board and executive board within three months: nine meetings since 12/2025. The report itself is versioned and built from the CI pipeline; it is based on automatically collected activity and release data instead of assessments.
- Built a container-based CI/CD infrastructure from scratch: cross-compilation, host tests, and documentation builds in one continuous pipeline.
- Introduced declarative QA gates for DevOps and development artifacts — from the start using lefthook instead of pre-commit, executed in a dedicated container image.
Technologies used: arc42, req42, tpo42, docToolchain, PlantUML, ArchiMate, C4 model, ADR, C, C++ (GTest), CMake, Bare Metal (ARM Cortex-M3/M7), OCI containers, Jenkins, lefthook, Prometheus, Grafana, SBOM, CRA, OPC, SCADA, PLC integration, IPv6 migration, Zero Trust, Sociocracy 3.0, Cynefin
Mario M.
Last position:
Co-Founder and CTO at B2B SaaS Recruiting Platform
Complete build of a B2B SaaS platform for recruitment agencies
- Multi-source job aggregation via ATS APIs
- AI-assisted career page scraping
- Rule-based and AI-assisted matching
- Credit-based monetization model with Stripe integration
- Live in production since July 2026
Tech stack
- NestJS
- React
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Claude AI
- Prisma
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)
Collin K.
Last position:
Software Architect / Fullstack Developer at Equity Bytes
Built an international e-commerce platform for a multi-vendor marketplace for digital assets from scratch. Designed and operated cloud native architectures at enterprise scale.
- Designed and operated a highly scalable microservice and serverless architecture
- Built the complete cloud infrastructure with Terraform + AWS CDK in AWS
- Provisioned ECS/EKS clusters (Fargate), Application Load Balancers (reverse proxy), and Lambda functions
- Observability & tracing with CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana
- End-to-end setup with DataDog (formerly AWS CloudWatch), Prometheus, and custom Grafana dashboards
- Integration of advanced metrics (including ORM mapper) and distributed tracing with Jaeger
- Robust backup and disaster recovery strategies
- RDS Postgres backups and hourly snapshots
- Read-only, asynchronously synchronized replicas with automated master failover in emergencies
- Minute-level rollback capability through versioned Docker images on ECS and Git-based CI/CD pipelines
- Created CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated multi-stage deployments (Dev, Testing, Prod)
- Integrated Stripe for international payment processing
- Built a marketplace payment system with multiple parties and payout routines
- Used Algolia for high-performance real-time search of digital assets on the platform
- Federation of services with GraphQL and Hasura
- Later migration to GraphQL Mesh
- Test Driven Development (TDD) - unit, integration, and E2E testing with Jest, Vitest, and Playwright
- Used Next.js / React for modern frontend applications in the nx monorepo
- Enterprise security architecture & access control
- Integration of JWT tokens with Auth0, OAuth, OIDC, IP guards, BOLA protection, and secret vaults
- Authorization concepts with RBAC, ABAC, and native Postgres Row-Level Security (RLS)
- Built internal microfrontends with Retool for fast prototyping and operational business processes
Technologies: ABAC, AWS CDK, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, AWS RDS, AWS S3, Algolia, Auth0, DataDog, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, GraphQL, GraphQL Mesh, Hasura, JWT, Jaeger, Java, JavaScript, Jest, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Monorepo, Next.js, OIDC, Playwright, Postgres, Postgres RLS, Prometheus, RBAC, Redis, Retool, Serverless, Stripe, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest
Manuel M.
Last position:
ERP Process Modeling at Richter Pharma AG
Migration preparation for the upcoming ERP system change: recording all ERP-related business processes, analyzing pain points, and consolidating them into process views. Ensuring that every process can be transferred to the target system or that an alternative exists. Result: a solid working basis for system integrators and a company ready for migration.
BPMN · Camunda
Detlef W.
Last position:
Sourcing Manager at BEDAG Informatik AG
- Solely responsible for managing procurement operations
- WTO tenders in an open procedure
- Invitation process
- Direct call-offs and mini-tenders from framework contracts
- Simap.ch, SuisseOffer.ch, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft 365 applications
Harold T.
Last position:
CPU Watcher — Cloud-Native Monitoring Application at SEUYTEL
- Planned and developed a CPU monitoring application for monitoring system performance and resource utilization.
- Designed and implemented a Spring Boot backend providing a REST API for processing and exposing monitoring data.
- Developed the React frontend for presenting monitoring information in a clear and user-friendly interface.
- Integrated PostgreSQL for persistent storage and management of application data.
- Containerized the application and its services using Docker Compose.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform on AWS.
- Structured the application as a modern, maintainable system using REST-based communication between frontend and backend.
- Designed and developed a secure, scalable CPU monitoring architecture (cpu-watcher) with a dedicated collector application that streams monitoring data to the backend, reducing direct exposure of system resources.
- Designed a secure cloud infrastructure with the database isolated within a private network and OIDC-based authentication.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and integrated version-controlled CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, infrastructure changes, and application deployments.
- Designed and implemented the frontend delivery architecture using AWS CloudFront.
Stack: Spring Boot · React · PostgreSQL · REST API · Docker Compose · Terraform · AWS
Stefan D.
Last position:
BI Consultant in Controlling at Reutter GmbH
- Extraction, transformation, and cleansing of data from Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Creation of sales reports in Power BI
- Training employees in business intelligence
- Technologies: Power BI, SQL, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Reinhold S.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at Hitachi Energy
- Support and further development of the Leegoo Builder
- Handling ad hoc requests
- Definition of rules/attributes and their rules
- Optimizing and managing SQL queries
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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
88%
Master's degree or higher
52%
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 11 Sep 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 11 Sep 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 (91%)
- Manufacturing (41%)
- Banking and Finance (39%)
- Automotive (37%)
- Retail (33%)
- Healthcare (31%)
- Education (29%)
- Professional Services (28%)
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 727 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Software Developer, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 52% 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 (95%), and French (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Software Developer are Information Technology (91%), Manufacturing (41%), and Banking and Finance (39%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Software Developer are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (92%), and Quality Assurance (53%).
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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