You will work in a large, stable IT environment supporting complex applications used in education and research contexts.
Your role focuses on strengthening and evolving an existing application landscape while ensuring continuity, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Although your background is Java, your day-to-day focus leans strongly toward front-end development, with the flexibility to work full-stack where needed. This role suits senior developers who enjoy combining hands-on development with technical leadership and coaching responsibilities in a mature environment.
Your responsibilities include
- Developing and adapting software based on clearly defined user stories.
- Contributing primarily to front-end development, with the ability to work full-stack when required.
- Ensuring software quality through clean code practices, testing, and documentation.
- Supporting IT projects through hands-on technical contribution.
- Ensuring continuity and stability of existing applications.
- Collaborating closely with architects, functional and technical analysts, and project managers.
- Coaching and mentoring junior developers within the team.
- Safeguarding software quality and technical standards across the team.
- Supporting planning and delivery to ensure deadlines are met.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of team maturity and technical knowledge.
- Applying Agile principles and taking a guiding role where appropriate.
What are we looking for?
- You have proven Senior level experience developing Java-based applications.
- You have experience coaching and guiding developers.
- You have hands-on experience working in Agile development environments, with the ability to take a leading role.
- You have experience with web development, including Angular, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- You have working knowledge of frameworks and APIs such as Spring and Hibernate.
- You have experience with web services (REST and SOAP).
- You are familiar with UML, Git, and relational databases.
- You are fluent in Dutch at CEFR level C2 (hard requirement).
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with digitalisation or process optimisation in education or research environments.
- Experience with additional front-end frameworks such as Wicket or Bootstrap.
- Experience contributing to long-term application modernisation initiatives.
What do we offer?
Location: Ghent (Belgium)
Work mode: Onsite / Hybrid
Contract: Freelance or Permanent
Workload: 80% (part-time)
Start date: 5 January 2026
End date: 31 December 2027
Why apply? 4 day workweek for the next 2 years, t Zal wel zijn, maat! Zijt ne keer serieus!?
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