Founded in 1948, Lely is committed to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in agriculture. Driven by the challenges faced by farmers and the needs of cows, we develop high-quality robots and data systems that improve animal welfare, flexibility, and productivity on dairy farms. Our mission is to support sustainable food production.
For more than 30 years, we have been a global leader in the sale and service of automated systems for successive generations of dairy farmers. Every day, we inspire our colleagues to offer customers innovative solutions and to be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With our state-of-the-art Lely Campus in Maassluis and a global network of dedicated Lely Centers offering customized sales and service, Lely is active in more than fifty countries.
At Lely, we develop technology that helps shape the future of sustainable dairy farming. From robotic milking systems to digital farming solutions, software plays a crucial role in creating reliable, intuitive, and scalable products used by farmers and technicians around the world.
As a Front-End Mobile Developer, you contribute directly to the mobile applications that interact with our robotic systems. You will work on applications that support farmers in their daily operations and help make complex technology accessible and easy to use.
In this role, you work closely with back-end developers, robotics engineers, designers, and other software specialists in multidisciplinary Scrum teams. Together, you create responsive and user-friendly mobile applications with a strong focus on reliability, usability, and performance in real-world environments.
Your main responsibilities
You are a software engineer who enjoys building applications that have a direct impact in practice. You combine technical curiosity with a collaborative mindset and feel comfortable working in an environment where software, hardware, and robotics come together.
You will likely recognize yourself in much of the following:
Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You help make the agricultural sector more futureproof, and we ensure you have the space, resources, and support to do so.
Work-life balance
We are also proud that our vision and efforts have been recognized with the Rotterdam Entrepreneurs Award 2025.
Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or staffing agency?
We appreciate the interest, but we recruit all our candidates directly. We understand that as intermediaries, you want to present candidates for our great positions and contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment process. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.
As an international family business in the agricultural sector, we spend every day making farmers’ lives easier with innovative solutions and tailored services. We offer solutions for almost all activities in the cowshed: from milking to cleaning. We provide advice on how to organise a dairy farm smartly with the use of management systems. Our vision and the needs and demands of our clients are the things that drive and inspire us.
Something we do since 1948, in this year brothers Cornelis en Arij van der Lely introduced the finger wheel rake to the market. One of our first inventions that made a substantial change in the traditional way of working on the farm. There were many more innovations with only one purpose making agrarian life easier and working together for a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in the agricultural sector.
