Just imagine: starting work every morning with a wide smile, with a curious and inclusive bunch of 22 engineers. You are helping to build a solid backend and add cool features. Imagine, as well, having all of your hard work see the light of day and have impact: all the features we work on are getting deployed to production in an instant and shipped to around 18,000 users.

We're on the hunt for a talented Junior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team. If you're passionate about crafting elegant, scalable PHP solutions and have a knack for learning new things, we want to hear from you!

• Develop robust and efficient PHP-based backend systems.

• Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to our coding standards.

• Most importantly, continuously learn and stay updated with the latest PHP technologies and best practices.

• 2+ years of experience in PHP development.

• Understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

• Experience with popular PHP frameworks like Laravel is a plus!

• A passion for learning and growing as a developer.

• A positive attitude. Bonus points for a good sense of humour :)

• Experience with unit testing and TDD.

• Knowledge of SQL and database design.

This is what we carefully prepared for you:

• 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!

• Fancy learning Dutch? We also offer Dutch courses for our international employees!

• 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.

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.

We aim for our recruitment experience to be fast, enjoyable, and fruitful - for both sides. Via this link, you can see what you can expect from your recruitment journey with us.

Otherwise don’t worry, we understand if you don’t know what to do right now. You like what you read but you still have questions before deciding to move forward. We got you! I am Evangelos, your friendly recruiter and part of Trengo’s Talent Team. Happy to clarify any doubts, so you can make a good choice, whichever that is. If you are not ready to apply yet, feel free to ask a question in the flowbot. If you are ready, talk to you soon.