Lead Developer

Create meaningful solutions that enhance the work of thousands of healthcare professionals, making their jobs easier and more impactful with our Hello app.
About The Role
We are looking for a proactive and decisive Lead Developer to join our Hello team and guide us through exciting growth and development phases.

This is a new role at Adapta combining technical leadership with hands-on DevOps and software development tasks. The Lead will provide strategic and hands-on guidance, ensuring our team can deliver high-quality solutions while addressing technical debt and setting a solid foundation for growth. You will be coaching and guiding Hello team members in their personal growth and technical skills: you will be the coaching leader who helps elevate the team without being responsible for HR tasks like absenteeism management.

Key Responsibilities For This Position Are
Lead with vision and strategy: You will provide technical leadership by defining and refining the roadmap, balancing innovation with resolving technical debt, driving the Devops culture and making key architectural decisions to ensure scalability and performance. You'll also act as a trusted sparring partner for management on technical strategy and planning.

Inspire and empower the team: You'll inspire and lead a cross-functional team of developers and designers, fostering a culture of collaboration, proactivity, and problem-solving. By guiding the team in prioritizing tasks, you'll ensure alignment with business goals and drive consistent, achievable planning within Scrum processes.

Champion scalability and efficiency: Your focus on addressing technical debt will unlock future scalability and long-term growth. At the same time, you'll build the technical roadmap and ensure that it is aligned with strategic priorities and executed with precision.

Innovate and enhance products: You'll play a key role in shaping the "Hello" app by streamlining support processes, driving product innovation, and contributing to the development of new features and modules that delight users.

Drive healthcare innovation: By collaborating with stakeholders, you'll integrate cutting-edge healthcare technologies while laying the foundation for future advancements, including wearables, clinical trials, and multi-data sources.

Deliver scalable and reliable solutions: With a focus on scalability and performance, you'll continuously improve the app's infrastructure to support its growing needs and ensure an exceptional user experience.

About Our Hello App
Are you ready to deploy technology where it truly makes an impact? Hello is the superapp already used by 10,000 healthcare professionals to make their daily community care work more enjoyable, better, and easier. With our smart availability solution, client module, and intelligent care signaling, we ensure healthcare professionals spend less time on screen work (also known as "portalitis") and can devote more attention to what really matters: personal care for their clients.

We are on the brink of taking a major leap forward with innovative expansions that will add even more value to daily practice. Think of advanced technologies that enhance care processes and strengthen collaboration between various disciplines. As a Tech Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping this future. Ready for the challenge?

About You

• At least 5 years of demonstrable experience as a Tech Lead or Senior Developer with software architecture responsibilities, including making technical decisions and building the technical roadmap for the team.
• Strong knowledge of Python (Django), Kubernetes, GCP, and microservices architecture. Frontend knowledge (Flutter) is a plus. Experience with SaaS environments and mobile-first applications is also beneficial.
• Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple technical and operational needs in a dynamic environment.
• A proactive, flexible problem-solver who thrives in a startup setting and adapts to changing needs with ease.
• Capable of defending technical choices with clarity and confidence
• Excellent communication skills in English (Dutch is not required).
• Currently based in the Netherlands, ideally near Amersfoort, with the ability to work from the office every Monday and Wednesday.
• As we do NOT have a recognised visa sponsor status we will not be able to consider candidates requiring Visa sponsorship.

What You (hopefully) Enjoy

• Salary.
• Fun. During 33 vacation days (including holidays), but also through team events, drinks, psychedelic ping pong and/or darts, and more.
• Work where you want. At home. On the go. Or at the office in Amersfoort. But at least 2 times a week (on Monday and Wednesday) in Amersfoort. We like that
• Good food: on Wednesdays, we have (warm) lunch together.
• Mobility, well-being, and development budget. Plus unlimited learnings from peers.
• Italian lessons when it comes to pronouncing Mozzarella: Flutter colleague Eugenio is a proud Italian.
• Chance to make a difference in the working live of our healthcare professionals.

*Why Adapta?*

• You will work on a product that has a direct social impact.
• You will be part of a small, agile team that values your contributions.
• You will lead a microservices-based architecture and resolve tech debt to accelerate future innovation.
• You will shape a product trusted by thousands of healthcare professionals
• You will enjoy a collaborative startup culture with opportunities to learn and grow.
• Your initiative and ownership will be highly valued, you will help us to shape the future of the product.

*Want to know more or grab a coffee?*
Do not hesitate to contact Maggie: or

No recruitment agencies please. Really. Not interested.