Netherlands

Feeny is tracking about 1,552 open tech roles in the Netherlands, from roughly 276 companies hiring. Each listing comes from a company's own careers page, so it's a live opening rather than a stale repost. Amsterdam carries most of the volume, with The Hague and Rotterdam adding more. Filter by city or discipline to narrow it down.

Amsterdam dominates, built on a fintech and payments base that punches well above the country's size. The Hague and Rotterdam add real pools of their own, but the center of gravity is clearly the capital. Its central European location and English-friendly workplaces pull engineers in from across the continent. Across the 3 Dutch cities we index, Amsterdam is where most of the search will point.

Amsterdam quietly runs a big share of European payments, anchored by Adyen, which processes for some of the largest companies in the world. Around it, Mollie, Mambu, and Backbase have all scaled into serious fintech businesses. That cluster is the reason so many payments and backend engineers end up here. Feeny lists roles from about 276 companies nationwide, so the live set is worth checking directly.

The mix leans heavily toward payments and fintech, backend engineering, and data. Adyen and the payments cluster around it drive demand for people who can build reliable financial infrastructure at scale. Beyond that, there's a steady base of general backend and data work across the Amsterdam scene. If you want to work on money movement, this is one of the best places in Europe to do it.

The Netherlands is one of the easiest places in Europe for an international engineer to land, because so many workplaces run in English and the culture is direct and low-drama. Amsterdam housing is genuinely tight and expensive, which is the main cost you'll feel. The upside is a favorable 30 percent tax ruling that some expats qualify for, which softens the blow. The honest trade is the housing crunch, so line up somewhere to live before you commit.

The Highly Skilled Migrant scheme is fast and widely used, and most Dutch tech firms are already recognized sponsors, so the path is smoother than in a lot of Europe. The EU Blue Card is the other route if it fits better. On top of the visa, some expats qualify for the 30 percent tax ruling, which is a meaningful perk. The Netherlands is very open to skilled foreign hires, and the process reflects that.