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Valsoft

Acquires, grows vertical market software companies

AI Developer - Dutch

AI Application Engineering +1Posted on Nov 10
Full-timeBoskoop, NetherlandsNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Professional fluency in Dutch and English, spoken and written.
  • Have three to five years of professional software-development experience, or comparably strong project-based experience.
  • Use AI-assisted or agentic development tools hands-on every day, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and demonstrate their results.
  • Have strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
  • Have experience building production applications with React and Next.js, including routing, server-side rendering or static-site generation, API routes, and data fetching.
  • Have backend experience with Node.js and/or Python, including REST APIs, authentication, and third-party integrations.
  • Have practical database knowledge, including schema design and queries, with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
  • Be familiar with testing practices and frameworks such as Jest, Playwright, or Cypress.
  • Be familiar with Git, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative workflows.
  • Have a good understanding of web fundamentals, including HTTP, authentication, caching, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, and deliver new features end to end across frontend, backend, and integrations.
  • Independently translate business requirements into working software, using agentic AI where useful.
  • Manage a prioritized backlog of improvements, bugs, and AI workflows, and bring them into production.
  • Align scope, edge cases, and expected behavior with colleagues in support, consulting, and product.
  • Build AI functionality for customers and intelligent automation in the software.
  • Integrate large language models and other AI services safely and reliably into production.
  • Test AI functionality against real customer situations and improve it based on usage.
  • Design and integrate AI agents for prototyping, automated testing and validation, debugging, performance analysis, and refactoring.
  • Evaluate agentic AI output against product goals, coding standards, and security requirements.
  • Gradually expand the work handled by AI agents to improve efficiency and reliability.
  • Share effective practices and help colleagues use AI in their own work.
  • Resolve production issues and deliver fixes safely and efficiently.
  • Improve performance, stability, and code quality over time through refactoring, tests, and cleanup.
  • Document workflows, technical decisions, and AI-agent behavior.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing, building, or directing agentic AI tools for software development.
  • Experience integrating large language models and using prompt engineering in production systems.
  • Experience modernizing an existing mature codebase.
  • Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud platforms such as Vercel, AWS, GCP, Azure, or Docker.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and automated testing.

About the Company

Valsoft

Acquires, grows vertical market software companies

Valsoft is a company that buys software businesses that serve specific, essential industries (like automotive and broadcasting) and helps them grow over the long term. It focuses on vertical market software—programs that are built for a particular industry—and keeps the acquired companies independent while giving them extra resources, best practices, and access to a global network. The core idea is to improve how these software businesses operate and expand their reach, rather than building new products from scratch. The main way Valsoft works is to purchase a niche software company, streamline its operations, and partner with the existing management team to drive steady growth. This approach sets Valsoft apart from others by emphasizing patient, long-term ownership and collaboration within a diverse portfolio of niche software. The goal is to create durable, profitable companies that continue to serve their essential customers efficiently and expand into new markets.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$420M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2015

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