We make the impossible possible.

We are a software engineering company for engineers by engineers.
For over a quarter of a century we have been building large-scale software systems that are business-critical to our clients.
Large-scale means millions of users, queries, transactions and billions of revenue.

We deliver fast and in daily increments to always deliver on time, on target, on budget and on quality.

We are building scalable systems that can be used, extended and maintained for decades to come.

From e-commerce to connected cars. Retail, healthcare, mobility, logistics and many more industries. Cloud computing, microservices, artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms. Multi-country, multi-continental. Multi-data center.

We get it done. Never late. Never failed.

We are efficient and successful.

Our teams work data-driven to constantly optimize their own productivity by removing friction from their work.

We have capable people on every level of our engineering organization.
Nothing that is of any value can be accomplished without dedication and hard work. This is why we give the best we can in any situation.

Technology never rests. And neither do we.

85% of our members are engineers with backgrounds in computer science, physics, mathematics. Many of them with a PhD.

We believe that only someone who truly understands what the teams are working on can coordinate between teams and make them efficient.

This is why we eliminate unnecessary management positions and put engineers in charge. We move fast and work in small and efficient teams. Everybody acts like an owner of their projects and takes end-to-end responsibility.

So we don’t take anything lightly. We are relentless. But we do everything with love.

We are pioneers.

freiheit.com technologies was founded in 1999 in the midst of the first internet boom.

Since then, we’ve been building custom, large-scale software platforms and helping our clients to create their future business models based on software.

We are software engineers.

We see software development as an engineering discipline. We focus on simplicity, lean and iterative engineering – and fast delivery processes since our foundation and long before “agile” became a buzzword.

Good software engineering means “keeping it simple”. We are building the simplest “software machine” with as few parts, mechanisms and dependencies as possible.

Simple does not mean easy.

Working at freiheit.com is an exciting adventure, with the goal to become a well-rounded software engineer who is able to plan, create, operate and lead large-scale systems in a team of software engineers.

A software company built for engineers by engineers.

We move as fast as technology does. So we use AI to our advantage. For more efficiency, simplicity, uniformity and continuity. But of course, we don’t stop using our brains.

We are problem solvers.

We love taking on difficult and ambitious missions and solving challenging problems. We believe that nothing is impossible.
We combine a growth mindset with long-term thinking and a can-do won’t stop attitude.

We are known for our deep technical expertise and our track record of delivering successful software projects. In over two decades, we have never failed to deliver what we promised.

This is why our clients entrust us with their most important projects.

We all have the same mission.

It all started in a kitchen in 1999 with our two founders. Now we are 250+ people in Hamburg and Lisbon.

Both of our hubs operate under the same organizational principals and team structure. Our teams work together seamlessly, sharing knowledge and expertise across borders.

No matter how many of us there are. To our core, we have always stayed the same. Our mission remains:

Ship great software. Never late. Never failed.

Collective intelligence and intelligent collective.

As engineers, we strive to distribute our knowledge and best practices to everyone within our company. Our goal is to make sure all team members “know what the company knows.” This reduces our reliance on individual experts and also helps us avoid making the same mistakes twice.

To keep our expertise up to date, we have a lean and fast request for comments process, where all team members contribute to our knowledge base. This knowledge base is maintained by our various engineering task forces. They continuously publish fresh Knowledge Base updates for other teams to learn from and apply.

This process allows us to take full advantage of the collective intelligence of our people and creates a very mature engineering organization that still has the speed and determination of a start-up.