We are the best community in the world.
It all started in a kitchen in 1999 in Hamburg with our two founders – now we are 250+ people in Hamburg and Lisbon.
And we still share the same vision and spirit – the can-do, won’t stop attitude.
We started with our first client, a big German car company and one small team back then. In the following 25+ years we successfully delivered hundreds of large-scale software projects around the world.
Everyone of us plays an important role to ensure we always deliver what we promise and 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.
So this is what we do during work hours – we build software. After work, we build friendships: from informal gatherings to community events with the entire team and everything in between.
Two hubs, one community
In 2018 we opened a second engineering hub in Lisbon.
It was clear from day one that it was important to plant the same engineering spirit as in Hamburg in the new hub – built for engineers by engineers.
Once the core values of freiheit.com were established in Lisbon, the focus changed into adapting these values to Portuguese culture and into growing the Lisbon hub to the same eye level as the Hamburg hub.
Our hub in Lisbon operates under the same organizational principles and team structures as our headquarters in Hamburg. The engineering members work together seamlessly and often in mixed teams, sharing knowledge and expertise across borders.
Technology never rests. And neither do we.
We think of our organization as a university forging well-rounded software engineers.
Each work task is like an exam that will help you hone your skills. Our engineering levels represent each semester in your engineering education.
Becoming a well-rounded professional in your field of expertise is a long journey that takes many years of hard work and learning. Being a member of our company will ask a lot of you and no one can do the work for you.
Our company is a place where you can become the best version of yourself.
We are not just working on solving mission impossible projects, we love to learn about everything that is happening in tech today.
We believe in openly sharing our knowledge and best practices across the organization, ensuring that every team member benefits from what the company collectively knows. Thereby we minimize the dependency on individual experts and help prevent repeated mistakes.
We not only do this in our Knowledge Base, our engineering members themselves also organize multiple tech talk events a month.
The topics range from theoretical physics, different types of file restoration techniques to the latest computer game technology and insights into current projects.
After work, we build friendships.
We believe an office should be at least as nice as your home.
In the end, it is where you spend the most part of your day.
We believe that teams work more efficiently and collaborate better if they are together in the office.
We want people to talk to each other. Discussions make us rethink, they make us get new ideas.
But above all, working in the same location makes our interpersonal connections stronger.
In the end, productivity is highly dependent on the company’s culture.
So after a challenging work day our members often meet on our roof terrace, drink a beer and enjoy the beautiful view over Hamburg and Lisbon.
Our engineering members love tackling complex problems. After work, strategy and teamwork take on a different shape. Whether it’s organizing board game nights and playing games like Yggdrasil Chronicles or Mansions of Madness or teaming up for sports of all kinds. From yoga to bouldering, regular bike trips, cross fit sessions or soccer games. Some even train for marathons together.
But of course it’s not only on our members to plan activities, we as freiheit.com regularly host bigger company events like summer and Christmas events or culture nights.
No matter if someone has been with freiheit.com for 25+ years or just a few days, at these events we enjoy time together. And of course dance the night away.
All of these occasions are opportunities to tell old anecdotes and create new ones together.
