What does the job function entail?
We’re looking for a senior developer ready to take the lead—someone who thrives at the intersection of architecture, DevOps, product thinking, and hands-on coding. As Lead Developer for Simplifier, you’ll guide the technical evolution of a live, widely used FHIR platform, while still writing code yourself. This is what you’ll be doing
- Own the architecture
You're the go-to person for backend design and long-term technical direction for the rest of the development team. You’ll make calls on infrastructure, performance, scaling, and security. - Design and develop with the future in mind. Being able to look a few years ahead to market changes and thinking through how to design Simplifier in a way that we can bring it to market.
- Code, ship, and improve. Development is still 50%+ of this role. You’ll work on complex features and foundational tooling. You initiate R&D in line with the product direction.
- Shape the roadmap. Work with the product manager and support team to turn feature requests and customer needs into real solutions and prioritization. You can unify short-term value client requests and needs with long-term design and development of Simplifier.
- Audits and discussions around quality requirements. You’ll be involved in audits and feature requests related to regulatory compliance rules from our main markets. You will help the product manager to make sure that our changing product remains aligned with these requirements as our product grows.
- Stay hands-on in DevOps
Together with our DevOps team, you manage a live Azure cloud setup, including scaling, cost control and incident response. You know how to solve issues in the infrastructure if they occur.
Who are we looking for?
This isn’t just about managing a backlog. It’s about shaping a product you believe in, collaborating with a sharp and experienced team, and solving problems that matter—to users, to clients, and to the future of digital health.
- Experience as a lead/senior developer in a live production environment.
- Strong backend and architectural skills (We’re using .NET, SQL Server and related Azure services).
- Comfort with agile processes and balancing roadmap vs. tech debt.
- Being able to help the product manager to prioritize requests and formulate a roadmap that will keep our product healthy and competitive.
- (Bonus) Familiarity with FHIR, health IT standards, and an interest in continuous learning
- (Bonus) Understanding of infosec, compliance, or accessibility concerns
What we offer:
- Job: A key role within a growing scale-up in Amsterdam.
- Compensation: A competitive salary ranging from €6,000 to €7,000 per month (based on a 40-hour workweek).
- Travel: A NS Business card 1st class to travel to the office.
- Location: A modern, centrally located office in the heart of Amsterdam.
- Time Off: 27 days of annual leave to enjoy your holidays and recharge.
- Remote Work Support: A budget to create your ideal work-from-home setup.
- Learning & Development: A growth package designed to support your ongoing professional development.
- Tech Setup: A budget to ensure you have the right laptop and tools to excel in your role.
- Culture: Join a dynamic, fast-growing team of passionate, tech-savvy professionals committed to transforming healthcare technology.
- Work Style: Experience the freedom of a hybrid, flexible work environment that promotes balance and autonomy.
Please note: we will review your application carefully and reply to your application in the week of
August 18, 2025.
About us
Be part of the revolution in Health Informatics!
Firely is a digital healthcare scale-up. We specialize in software and services in healthcare and research. The company is one of the initiators of HL7 FHIR (pronounced “fire”), a new international standard for information exchange in healthcare. By making health data more accessible, Firely helps developers worldwide build apps that ultimately benefit patients. Our customers are healthtech vendors, care providers, payers/insurance companies, governments, and health agencies in Europe and the US.
Firely is a group of software engineers, support engineers, FHIR consultants, and a commercial team. Our head office is based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), our international team works from Europe and the US.
An important part of our activities is the involvement in the development of both the FHIR standard itself and FHIR tooling and open-source libraries. Besides that, we are the organizers of FHIR DevDays, and founding member of the FHIR Business Alliance (FHIRBall). We live and breathe FHIR, we talk FHIR to our computers, our colleagues, and even our friends which … frankly … drives them crazy! Working with Firely means working with FHIR, building software, and doing consultancy in an international team. It means FHIR DevDays. It means being part of the FHIR revolution. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's fire it up together!
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Firely is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
