Software Development Engineer

Primary Location
Netherlands-The Hague

NATO Body
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)

Schedule
Full-time

Application Deadline
20-Dec-2025, 12:59:00 AM

Salary (Pay Basis)
7,163.77

Grade
NATO Grade G15

Who we are:
For more than 70 years, NATO's mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO's airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:
Based in The Hague, Netherlands, you will join NCIA as Software Development Engineer bringing your expertise to the The AirC2 Centre. AirC2 delivers planning, development, procurement, implementation and In-Service Support of NATO authorised AirC2 capabilities across the Alliance and bilaterally in the European Nations of the Alliance, satisfying the operational requirements, assuring the coherence, integrity and interoperability of the involved NATO and national systems and sub-systems.

Specifically you will join the Engineering functional group (FG) which governs architecture, design and system / service integration and coordinates, aligns and oversees the execution of technical activities and Programmes of work (PoW). The FG maintains and coordinates associated strategies, domain level architectures, technical assets, documentation and engineering best practice. It provides embedded and augmentation engineering support to projects and coordinates progress across internal stakeholders, including FGs, SAs, FAs, POs and supporting BAs.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to work under the direction of the assigned functional manager. You will perform duties such as the following:

• Methods and tools
• Software design
• Programming/software development
• Systems design
• Software design

For a full list of duties please review the job description click here:
Software Development Engineer
About You
The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• At least 2 years of experience in a multinational and/or military environment, working in one or more of the following areas:
• Software development - real time JAVA environment
• Experience of Software development in a NATO Datalink environment is desireable
• Experience of Software development using the ADA language is desireable

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 5 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children's allowances;
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
• Excellent private health insurance scheme;
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
• NATO Pension Scheme;
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our
website
.

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found
here
via the NCI Agency career site.