Software Development & Engineering Recruitment

Gravitas consultants each specialise in one area of the technology market. In software development and engineering, that means working every day across .NET, C#, JavaScript, PHP and Product. We keep our market knowledge current by tracking how frameworks evolve, how AI-assisted development is changing day-to-day engineering work, and how pay is moving. As a result, conversations about your brief start from a shared understanding of the work and up-to-date market intelligence.

Every brief begins with context. A developer joining a small product team that ships weekly needs a different profile from one joining an enterprise platform team with established release processes. Understanding your codebase, team structure and delivery rhythm helps us identify who will thrive with you.

Technical capability is the foundation of every assessment. Alongside it, we explore the qualities that make developers and product professionals valuable to a team:

• writing code others can maintain and build on
• approaching testing as part of the craft
• collaborating well across design, product and engineering
• understanding how their work serves the end user

For product roles, we look at how candidates balance user needs, commercial goals and technical constraints when making decisions.

These qualities turn technical skill into software that lasts and teams that work well together. Our shortlist for you reflects both.

From legacy modernisation to new product builds, the Dutch software market calls for developers who combine strong fundamentals with modern frameworks, and product professionals who keep delivery focused on the user. We recruit across:

• .NET Developers: ASP.NET Core, microservices and Azure-hosted applications.
• C# Engineers: backend and full-stack development for business-critical systems.
• JavaScript Developers: React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript and Node.js.
• PHP Developers: Laravel, Symfony, SaaS and e-commerce platforms.
• Product: product owners, product managers and heads of product.

We predominantly cover mid-level through to lead and leadership roles.

We predominantly work with two types of organisation across the Netherlands, and tailors its approach to each.

Organisations building software in-house. These include product companies and scale-ups, alongside established enterprises modernising their applications and digital services. Here, the conversation covers:

• team composition and technical culture
• how a new developer or product professional will strengthen the way your team builds and ships software
• long-term fit, which matters as much as individual skills

Software houses, consultancies and secondment providers (detacheringsbureaus). These organisations deliver software for their own clients and need developers who are confident in front of a client and adaptable across different codebases and cultures. Here, the conversation focuses on:

• specific technical capability
• availability
• hourly rates and commercial structure

Gravitas offers contingency, retained and contract hiring, and adapts to whichever model suits the engagement. For a full picture of how we work, see our permanent recruitment and contract hiring pages.

Each of the sectors we support shapes its software in its own way, from regulation to the experience customers expect. We recruit software developers and product professionals for:

• Fintech: payments and banking platforms, with DORA shaping resilience expectations.
• Insurtech: modernising .NET and C# policy and claims platforms.
• Greentech: customer portals and energy management applications.
• Transport and logistics: booking, tracking and planning platforms.
• SaaS and product-led businesses: B2B and B2C products.
• Software houses, consultancies and detacheringsbureaus: talent for client delivery.

A specialist software development recruiter brings technical understanding, established networks and market insight to every stage of hiring. The right developer or product professional helps your team ship with confidence, so a well-matched hire has a lasting impact.

• Technical depth in sourcing: our consultants understand which GitHub profiles, open-source contributions and community involvement reflect genuine engineering capability, and they look at the work behind every CV.
• Assessment before shortlist: we explore coding approach, system design thinking and engineering judgement before a candidate reaches you, so your interview time is spent with people ready to contribute.
• Market insight to help you plan: salary benchmarks, hourly interim rates, availability trends and a clear view of how similar profiles are moving in the Dutch market.
• Established candidate networks: long-standing relationships with developers and product professionals across stacks and seniority levels, including people who aren’t actively looking or visible on job boards.
• Permanent and interim expertise: whether you need a developer embedded long-term or an interim specialist for a defined project, we work across both. We understand the commercial structures of each, including the considerations around engaging independent professionals under the Wet DBA.
• Sector knowledge: we understand the engineering context of fintech, insurtech, greentech and transport, and that knowledge shapes the brief, the search and the shortlist.