AI-Driven Senior Frontend Engineer
Trengo
Software Engineering, Data Science
Utrecht, Netherlands
Posted on Jun 19, 2025
You're a technically exceptional frontend engineer who thrives in small, high-performing teams (3-4 people) using AI tools to accelerate development and solve complex problems. You'll help transform monolithic frontend systems into modern micro-frontend architectures while practicing true engineering agility beyond traditional SCRUM ceremonies. Your expertise in Vue3, Pinia, and Vite will be foundational to our success.
At Trengo, we believe in a world where technology empowers the relationship between companies and their customers. That’s why our mission is to build an AI-powered customer engagement platform to replace repetitive work with meaningful conversations. How do we do that? Our software makes it easy for customer-facing teams to communicate with customers via multiple channels, all in one shared inbox. Email, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, live-chat, you name it. With a Series A investment of $36M led by Insight Partners and Peak Capital and becoming one of the four official WhatsApp Business Solutions Providers in the Netherlands, we empower our customers to scale their businesses and optimize the channels their clients truly prefer.
Key Responsibilities
- AI-Enhanced Development: Leverage agentic-based AI tools like Cursor, Augment Code, or Claude Code to accelerate coding, refactoring, and problem-solving, while continuously exploring new AI-augmented development techniques.
- Architectural Transformation: Lead initiatives to decompose monolithic frontends into micro-frontend architectures; design scalable, resilient, and independently deployable UI services.
- True Agility: Embrace lightweight, outcome-focused engineering practices that deliver value quickly without ceremony overhead; implement CI/CD for rapid, confident releases.
- Technical Leadership: Collaborate closely with peers through pair programming and knowledge sharing; make pragmatic technical decisions that balance innovation with stability and stay current with the latest FE tooling.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of professional software development with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Strong frontend development expertise with deep experience in Vue3, Pinia, Vite, and modern FE tooling.
- Demonstrable experience designing and implementing micro-frontend architectures.
- Advanced prompting techniques needed both in coding and in advancing our AI-driven development practices.
- Experience with or enthusiasm for AI-augmented development tools (Cursor, Augment Code, Claude Code, or similar).
- A pragmatic approach to solving complex problems with simple, maintainable solutions.
- Passion for transforming legacy architectures and embracing emerging technologies.
- Results-oriented mindset focused on outcomes rather than processes.
- Collaborative spirit with excellent communication skills.
What we offer
- Finding yourself in a fast-growing company where your career can evolve. With the help of your number one supporter, your manager, you will follow our departmental growth tracks to pursue the career you want. This is one of the reasons for our positive Glassdoor reviews (4/5).
- We really value flexibility and trust our people. That’s why we work hybrid, and our people can work from abroad for 60 days per year.
- Free sessions with on-demand psychologists from OpenUp. Your mental health is important to us.
- An education budget to feed your curiosity and 2 extra days off for your courses or conferences, if needed.
- 28 vacation days to rest, have fun, and travel as you wish.
- Internet and phone allowance every month!
- When you work from our beautiful office: you can bet we have delicious warm lunches together prepared by our in-house chef and workplace experience team.
- Also, your traveling expenses to Utrecht will be reimbursed.
Our Engineering Culture
We're building small, empowered teams that leverage AI to solve complex problems efficiently.
We value true agility over ceremonies, focusing on outcomes rather than processes.
Our engineers continuously learn, experiment, and deliver exceptional results in an environment where senior talent can make a significant impact.