Top Companies Hiring for Software Jobs in Amsterdam (Oct 2026)

You want a job writing software in Amsterdam, and you've been staring at job boards for three weeks without knowing which companies to actually chase. Let's fix that first.

As of 14 October 2026, our live feed shows 11 open Software jobs in Amsterdam, and 7 of them were posted in the last 30 days with 2 landing in the last 7 days. The market is moving. Slowly.

One thing to clock before the ranking: some of these names are recruiters or staffing firms, not the company you'd sit inside. Read titles closely.

The ranking, by open listings#

Counts are open listings on 14 October 2026, pulled from JobRise's live feed. Not a market survey, just what's posted right now.

1. Togetherai: 5 listings. Titles lean hard on infrastructure and AI compute: "Senior Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together Cloud", "Junior/Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure Engineering", "Lead/Manager Together Cloud Infrastructure", "Senior Network Engineer (Amsterdam)", plus one more. Only one employer here has real depth in the slice.

2. Mongodb: 1 listing. "Principal Partner Specialist". Senior and partner-facing. Not a pure coding seat.

3. Langchain: 1 listing. "Deployed Architect, Professional Services (Amsterdam)". Customer work with a technical spine.

4. Exotec: 1 listing. "Business Developer Leader". Sales, not engineering.

5. Bunq: 1 listing. "iOS Developer". The only mobile role in the slice.

6. Belmont Lavan Ltd: 1 listing. Title not in our example set.

7. Elements: 1 listing. Title not in our example set.

That's 7 companies for 11 roles, and one of them owns nearly half the market. That changes where your time should go.

Amsterdam versus the rest of the Netherlands#

Amsterdam holds 11 of the 24 Software jobs listings across all of the Netherlands on 14 October 2026, so roughly half the country's software postings on our feed sit in this one city. Concentration like that cuts both ways: more chances, more competition.

Widen the lens and Amsterdam shows 72 open listings across all categories. Software is a slice, not the whole story.

If you're weighing cities, Amsterdam is where the density is. For a broader look at what's open nationally, compare the Amsterdam software feed against the country results side by side.

How to target each employer type#

The titles fall into three buckets, and each one wants a different CV and a different pitch.

Deep tech infrastructure at Togetherai needs systems detail: languages, runtimes, scale, on-call, what broke and what you did about it. Vague bullets like "worked on backend services" get you filtered out in seconds here.

Partner and presales engineering at Mongodb and Langchain wants someone who can talk to customers and still write clean code. Lead with a story where you explained something hard to a non-technical room and got a decision out of it.

Sales and business roles at Exotec are a different game. Show revenue, pipeline, named accounts, cycle length.

For the iOS role at Bunq, ship a link to an app or a repo. Reviewers open GitHub on a phone and give it 30 seconds.

Before you write a word, run each company through the free company insights tool. It pulls what the company says about itself so you can mirror their language instead of guessing.

Referral and outreach scripts#

Cold messages work when they're short and specific. Two scripts below, both built on the pattern that gets replies.

Referral ask, to someone you already know:

"Hi Sara, hope you're good. I saw Togetherai is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer, AI Compute role and it lines up with the infra work I did at my last job. Would you be up for referring me? Happy to send my CV and a short note on why I fit. No worries at all if the answer is no."

Cold outreach, to a hiring manager or engineer you don't know:

"Hi Mark, I saw your team posted the Deployed Architect role in Amsterdam. I spent two years doing customer-facing platform work, mostly helping teams get a new service into production without downtime. I wrote one line on how I'd approach the first 90 days in the role, linked below. If it's useful, I'd love 15 minutes. If not, no reply needed."

The "one line on the first 90 days" bit does the work. It proves you read the title and think in outcomes.

A 7-step plan#

1. Pick your bucket. Infrastructure, presales engineering, or sales. Don't spray all three.

2. Read every title in the slice slowly. Titles here are unusually specific, which is a gift.

3. Run the free company insights tool on each of the 7 companies before you write anything.

4. Rewrite the top third of your CV for the bucket you picked. One version per bucket, not per job.

5. Find two people at your target company and send the referral script. Two, not twenty.

6. Apply through the listing, then send the cold outreach anyway. The application gets you in the system, the message gets you seen.

7. Track it in a spreadsheet: company, role title, date applied, contact name, last touch. Follow up once after 7 days, then move on.

Worked example: rewriting a CV bullet#

Most people write this:

"Responsible for backend services and infrastructure."

Rewrite it like this:

"Owned 12 Go services handling 40k requests per minute, cut p99 latency from 800ms to 120ms by fixing connection pooling, ran the on-call rota for a team of 4."

Numbers, a specific fix, and scope. That bullet survives the 6-second skim a recruiter gives before deciding.

One more thing: none of the 11 listings in this slice shows a salary, so don't walk into a call guessing what an offer looks like. Ask the recruiter for the range in your first reply, and check the official Dutch sources for tax and visa rules if you're relocating.

FAQ#

How many software jobs are open in Amsterdam right now?

On 14 October 2026, JobRise's live feed shows 11 open Software jobs listings in Amsterdam. Seven were posted in the last 30 days and 2 in the last 7 days.

Which company has the most software openings in Amsterdam?

Togetherai, with 5 listings on 14 October 2026. The other six companies in the slice each have 1 open listing.

Are these all direct employers?

No. Some names on the listings are recruiters or staffing firms. Check the listing detail before you assume who you would actually work for.

Do any of these roles show a salary?

None of the 11 listings in this slice shows a salary. Ask for the range in your first message with the recruiter, and verify current tax and visa figures on official Dutch sources.

Is Amsterdam the best city in the Netherlands for software jobs?

On our feed it has 11 of the country's 24 Software jobs listings as of 14 October 2026, and 72 listings across all categories. That concentration makes it the strongest single market in the slice.