What you will do
You will join the digital solutions team of a Belgian public-sector organisation working on water management programmes. Your role is to develop a calculation tool that assesses the impact of measures on water bodies and helps inform planning decisions.
The tool feeds directly into analysis and visualisation dashboards. It supports scenario calculations, evaluates the effectiveness of measures, tracks progress per water body, and underpins cost-benefit analyses.
As a developer, you will:
- Develop solutions that meet the requirements set out in functional analyses
- Perform technical analysis of the solutions you build
- Ensure quality in collaboration with colleagues and end users
- Follow test-driven development principles and the organisation's standards and best practices
- Work within an Agile environment
What we are looking for
Essential skills and experience:
- At least 5 years of demonstrable experience in developing database-driven applications (senior level)
- Demonstrable experience with full stack development
- Demonstrable experience with back-end programming using Java and Spring Boot
- Demonstrable experience with front-end development using Angular and TypeScript
- Demonstrable experience with the Spring framework
- Demonstrable experience with REST
- Demonstrable experience with testing: JUnit and integration testing
- Demonstrable experience using code versioning tools (e.g. SVN for version control)
- Fluent in Dutch (European CEFR level C2)
Highly valued:
- Experience leading a development team and coaching developers
- Experience executing programming tasks fluently: coding, testing and debugging
- Experience with the Atlassian Suite
- Experience with JPA/Hibernate
- Experience with Maven
- Knowledge and experience of Agile development methodology, with the ability to take on a leading role
- Knowledge of the organisation and experience in public-sector assignments, or familiarity with the technical standards used
Nice to have:
- Experience with Docker
The setting
This assignment runs from 1 November 2026 to 31 March 2027. You will work full-time (584 hours over the period, depending on available budget).
You are expected to be on site at least one day per week; the rest can be worked remotely. The on-site location is in East Flanders. Office hours are between 8:30 and 17:00, with some flexibility in consultation.
The organisation provides the necessary licences, software and network access. You will need to bring your own Office licence or use LibreOffice as an alternative.
How you join us
You can join us for this assignment as a freelancer or as an employee of HumanInTech. Same role, same team.
If you join as an employee, your employment continues beyond this assignment. When it ends, we’ll work together to find your next assignment.