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About the role

What freelance software developers deliver

Freelance software developers design, build, and maintain robust applications that keep businesses agile. They write clean, testable code, design database schemas, and integrate APIs to connect legacy systems with modern cloud environments. By stepping into existing teams, these external specialists accelerate development pipelines, debug critical system bottlenecks, and implement modern software architectures to ensure scalability and security.

Modern tools and technical expertise

Experienced programmers bring deep knowledge in specific programming languages, frameworks, and deployment methodologies. Their technical toolkits typically include:

  • Backend languages such as Java, C#, Python, or Node.js
  • Frontend frameworks including React, Angular, and Vue.js
  • Database management systems like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis
  • DevOps and cloud infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure
  • Version control systems and CI/CD pipeline automation

Driving regional engineering excellence

In Nuremberg and the surrounding Franconia region, software engineers frequently work at the intersection of traditional manufacturing, automotive supply chains, and medical technology. Local projects often demand deep knowledge of embedded systems, industrial IoT protocols, or enterprise software integration. Freelance developers in this hub are highly adaptable, collaborating closely with local internal R&D departments in hybrid models that blend remote coding with occasional on-site workshops.

Strategic benefits of external development talent

Companies hire freelance engineers to bridge temporary capacity gaps, kickstart high-priority projects, or inject specialized technical knowledge that is missing internally. Bringing in a freelancer bypasses lengthy recruitment cycles, allowing teams to scale up rapidly when building new products or migrating legacy systems to the cloud. These self-starting professionals require minimal onboarding and deliver immediate, tangible code contributions from day one.

Meet FRATCH Software Developers

Oleg Orlov

Senior Software Architect C#/.NET | BI, Data & AI Integration

Nuremberg

Last position:

Senior Software Developer / BI Integration Developer Power BI, C# at Telecommunications

Embedded Analytics & AI-assisted BI

Design and development of an integrated analytics solution based on ASP.NET Core, Power BI Embedded, and LLM services to provide contextual business information.

Development of an AI agent with Function/Tool Calling for secure orchestration of REST APIs, SQL data sources, and technical services within defined business processes.

Build-up of automated BI workflows including workspace management, deployment processes, and scheduled refresh via the Power BI REST API.

Implementation of secure service-to-service communication with Microsoft Entra ID and service principal, as well as integration into existing enterprise system landscapes.

Technologies: ASP.NET Core, C#/.NET, Power BI Embedded, Power BI REST API, LLM API, AI Agents, Function/Tool Calling, Entra ID

Oleg Orlov

Divya Manjunath

AI Engineer and Software Engineer

Erlangen

Last position:

Artificial Intelligence and Automation Consultant at Perulatus

  • Engineered and maintained backend systems and APIs for scalable AI-powered applications, integrating LLM-based functionality and MCP integrations for marketing tools into production environments with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Built and deployed LLM-driven workflows, retrieval-enhanced application features, and n8n-based automations, enabling intelligent automation and AI-assisted functionality across backend systems.
  • Developed an automated AI content publishing pipeline using n8n, LLM-based content generation, AI image generation, HTML processing, WordPress API integration, and Supabase/Postgres for end-to-end workflow execution.
  • Optimized AI workflows and n8n automations by replacing manual steps with webhook-based and API-driven processes, improving scalability, consistency, speed, and production readiness.
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues, improve existing software, and deliver new AI-enabled product features in a fast-paced startup environment, while leveraging ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate prototyping, testing, and debugging.
Divya Manjunath

Ali Desteli

Software Engineer Industrial IT & PLC

Herzogenaurach

Last position:

Software Engineer Industrial IT & PLC at Yaskawa Europe GmbH

  • Designed and implemented the complete data flow architecture for the Mercedes-AMG battery case production line, from raw material processing to end-customer traceability.

  • Developed MQTT-based communication protocols for Siemens S7 PLC controllers to enable efficient real-time data exchange between machines and supervisory systems.

  • Architected a local Ubuntu-based industrial server, integrating Node-RED for data collection, MySQL databases running in Docker containers, and automated data pipelines.

  • Commissioned connectivity of 52 Siemens PLCs and 32 Yaskawa welding and handling robots.

  • Designed and implemented HMI and visualization systems to support operator interaction and production monitoring.

  • Designed a 2D digital twin of the production floor, visualizing real-time process data from 26 Siemens PLCs and 18 Yaskawa welding robots via Stromquelle interfaces.

  • Implemented data collection and camera-based measurement systems for welding quality control and automated defect visualization.

  • Designed and optimized MySQL database structures, including stored procedures for data processing and performance analytics.

Ali Desteli

Partha Nandi

AI Software Developer

Erlangen

Last position:

AI Software Developer at Fraunhofer IIS

  • Built a custom AI chatbot for an e-commerce client using GPT-4 and LangChain with RAG, reducing customer support ticket volume by 45% and improving response accuracy to 92%.
  • Designed and deployed an intelligent document processing system using LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and FastAPI for a FinTech startup, enabling semantic search across 100K+ financial documents.
  • Developed multi-agent AI workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph for a marketing agency, automating lead research, content generation, and outreach — saving 20+ hours/week of manual work.
  • Created AI-powered automation pipelines using n8n, Make, and Zapier integrated with CRMs (GoHighLevel, HubSpot), reducing manual data entry by 80% for a real estate firm.
  • Delivered prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning consulting for multiple clients, optimizing AI model outputs for customer support, content creation, and data extraction use cases.
  • Built production-ready REST APIs with Python and FastAPI to serve AI models on AWS and GCP, handling 10K+ daily requests with 99.9% uptime.
Partha Nandi

Jozsef Ferincz

IT project management, introduction of AI-supported software development

Nuremberg

Last position:

IT project management, introduction of AI-supported software development

  • Industry: software manufacturer
  • Tasks: project management; tracking and coordination of projects; stakeholder management; change management; prioritization of requirements; alignment of architecture; supplier management (internal and external); release management; monitoring defect resolution with the teams; AI-supported software development, software testing and code analysis; AI prompting, prompt engineering
  • Software: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, MS Teams
  • Environment: IT, software development, agile, artificial intelligence (AI)
Jozsef Ferincz

Rolf Wendolsky

Agile Consultant

Nürnberg

Last position:

Agile Consultant at Lead.ai

  • Introduced Agile-CCPM in an IT project agency focused on PHP-based content management systems.
  • Prepared and conducted workshops to establish an agency-wide multiproject management system.
  • Coordinated and supported agency partners.
  • Coached the methodological framework.
  • Collected, analyzed, and used organizational metrics to plan the next steps.
  • Environment: OKR, CCPM, agile coaching, agile planning, agile metrics, workshopping, facilitation, change management, JIRA, Zoom, Slack, Miro.
Rolf Wendolsky

Michael Eilers

Software Developer

Fürth

Last position:

Software Developer at Continental

  • Supported a telematics component in the automotive sector with SELinux and open-source license management.
  • Products: SELinux, iMX8, ScanCode.
  • Skills: Linux, firmware development, Python.
Michael Eilers

Robert Brandl

Embedded Expert | Software Developer | Technical Lead & Mentor | RTOS | Industrial Communication | OPC UA

Fürth

Last position:

Team Lead; Software Developer at Provider of industrial control systems for manufacturing and digital transformation

Industrial Communication | Proof of Concept: Controller-to-Controller Communication with OPC UA FX

Proof of Concept for OPC UA FX-based controller-to-controller communication between virtual programmable logic controllers (vPLC) on an industrial edge platform. A virtual test environment was set up on Debian Linux in two phases (including VMs and vPLCs), shared-memory communication (real-time information bus) was activated, and the RIB solution was integrated into a customized product firmware (including shared memory and PROFINET support) and deployed in containerized environments (Docker). Additionally, a virtual Ethernet connection was developed to simulate the network topology. Finally, commissioning, functional tests, sample application creation, comprehensive documentation, and customer support were completed.

Robert Brandl

Ralph Navasardyan

AI Lead Engineer Car Configurator for leading German premium manufacturer

Rückersdorf

Last position:

AI Lead Engineer Car Configurator for leading German premium manufacturer at e-ntegration GmbH

  • Intent-driven approach to configure all models across all series automotive in all distribution markets of this car manufacturer
  • Developed a customer-facing, conversation-driven integration layer to achieve 100% hallucination-free technical configurations
  • Utilized Microsoft Azure AI Services: AI Foundry, Agent Service, AI Search; Prompt Shield Services; Content Security; Terraform; API Gateway; AI Gateway; Container Services; Azure Agent SDK; Agent Skills; RAG; MCP Servers and tools
Ralph Navasardyan

Premalatha Sampathi

Software Engineer

Erlangen

Last position:

Software Engineer at ASO-TDS(DISCOVERY)

  • Created database schemas and liaised with geographically distributed teams using waterfall methodology
  • Participated in business workshops and authored technical specification documents aligned with architectural requirements
  • Developed high-quality code deliverables and reports using repository tools
Premalatha Sampathi

Johannes Knörzer

Software Developer

Altdorf bei Nürnberg

Last position:

Software Developer at Hoffmann Engineering Services GmbH

  • Software development
  • Technical design of software architecture and design (considering functional and non-functional requirements)
  • Frontend and Backend
  • Refactorings
  • Code reviews
  • Unit tests
  • Automated integration tests
  • E2E tests

Global Identity Services (GIS) is the identity provider for the Digital Services Platform (DSP). GIS is responsible for authenticating and authorizing end users and other DSP services by issuing security tokens. This includes:

  • Identity management (e.g., user registration, password reset and change, user profiles)
  • Management of roles and permissions
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) across DSP services
  • Management of OAuth resources and terms and conditions
Johannes Knörzer

Ashmi Jha

Software Developer

Nuremberg

Last position:

Software Developer at Myrix Labs

  • Engineered high-performance APIs with FastAPI + MongoDB, integrating live weather data (NOAA, NWS).
  • Developed an AI chatbot with OpenAI APIs — context-aware by location, profession & interests.
  • Created admin dashboard APIs for real-time monitoring and zero-downtime configuration.
  • Integrated Stripe Embedded Payments with secure transactions & subscription management via webhooks.
Ashmi Jha

Stefan Schmid

Senior Software Developer

Nürnberg

Last position:

Senior Software Developer at TT4 GmbH

  • Technical lead and development of an Ionic Angular app for iOS and Android
  • Further development of a time tracking system with Angular and .NET
  • Development of enterprise software with focus on TDD, Angular, .NET and Entity Framework
Stefan Schmid

Ioan Dobre

Senior Software Developer

Roßtal

Last position:

Senior Software Developer at ING

  • Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
  • Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, mortgage financing software.
  • Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
  • Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
  • Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
  • Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
  • CiL SCS consumer pacts with Finagle.
  • CiL SCS touch point architecture integration.
  • Team size: 10.
  • Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, IntelliJ IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.
Ioan Dobre

Dennis Suffel

Java Developer

Nuremberg

Last position:

Software Developer at CodeCamp:N

Work on different projects, mostly in the third-party client market:

  • Building deploy and release Jenkins pipelines and developing an application with Spring Boot and Angular
  • Ruby on Rails web application for a medical product
  • VR biofeedback app with Unity and Flutter
  • NestJS backend of a startup

Deepened my knowledge in test-driven development and the SCRUM methodology

Dennis Suffel

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Software Developers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years

Position duration

2 years

Positions per freelancer

14

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Bachelor's degree or higher

100%

Master's degree or higher

71%

Doctorate

6%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, Russian

Speak two or more languages

89%

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Daily rate avg. 698 €

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Median rate 720 €

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A software developer primarily focuses on writing code, implementing features, and building functional applications based on specific requirements. In contrast, a software engineer takes a broader system-level approach, designing the overarching architecture, scalability frameworks, and data models. Both roles are critical, and freelance professionals often perform a mix of both tasks depending on project size.

Hiring a freelance programmer allows your team to scale development capacity rapidly without long-term overhead. Freelancers bring specialized, niche technical knowledge for short-term migrations, system overhauls, or product launches. This flexibility is highly valuable for handling peak workloads or testing new technologies before making a permanent hiring commitment.

The expertise of a freelance software engineer is demonstrated through clean, well-documented code repositories, architectural design skills, and a strong portfolio of completed projects. We assess their technical proficiency through peer code reviews and their ability to solve complex logical problems. Strong communication skills and a track record of successful integration into agile team structures are also key quality indicators.

In the Nuremberg region, there is strong demand for a software developer with expertise in C++ and C# due to the strong presence of industrial automation and medical technology firms. Java and Python are also highly sought after for enterprise software and data engineering projects. Modern web developers specializing in JavaScript frameworks like React and Node.js are equally critical for regional digitalization initiatives.

Most application developers can work fully remotely, provided they have secure access to the necessary development environments and communication tools. However, for projects in Nuremberg involving proprietary hardware or physical testing, a hybrid model is often preferred. In these cases, developers work remotely for coding phases and come on-site for deployment, testing, or sprint planning.

A professional coder in Nuremberg typically speaks fluent English, which is the standard language for codebases, documentations, and international tech teams. While local German companies often appreciate German language skills for alignment meetings, many tech projects are managed entirely in English. The exact language requirement depends heavily on the internal team structure of the hiring company.

A skilled freelance developer is highly adaptable and usually starts writing productive code within their first week. They require minimal hand-holding, needing only clear API documentation, access to repository codes, and brief introductions to the sprint goals. Their experience across diverse project environments allows them to adapt to new development workflows much faster than junior hires.

The industrial, automotive, and healthcare sectors in Nuremberg rely heavily on a software engineer to accelerate their digital transformation. These industries frequently require external support to develop IoT platforms, cloud-based monitoring systems, or embedded firmware. Freelancers bring valuable cross-industry best practices that help local businesses stay competitive and innovative.

The average hourly rate for Software Developers in Nuremberg is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 698 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Software Developers in Nuremberg, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Software Developers in Nuremberg have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Software Developers in Nuremberg are German (100%), English (89%), and Russian (16%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Software Developers in Nuremberg are Information Technology (95%), Manufacturing (58%), and Automotive (53%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Software Developers in Nuremberg are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (68%).

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