Senior Frontend Engineer, sennder
Digital freight-forwarder platform
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Digital freight-forwarder platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Take logistics in a new direction and bring a new degree of transparency and flexibility to the industry.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in frontend development with frameworks like Vue.js
- Deep understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript and browser performance best practices
- Experience building production systems that consume REST or GraphQL APIs
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns
- Exposure to AI/ML technologies, with practical experience integrating them into user-facing applications
- Familiarity with LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) and prompt-driven tools or SDKs
- Experience with AI-powered QA automation or code generation tools is preferred
- Comfortable with Python or other ML-adjacent scripting languages
- Knowledge of MLOps or model lifecycle considerations in the frontend context
- Prior experience in product domains involving personalization, content generation, or automation is preferred
- Experience with Microfrontend architecture
Desirable
- Contributions to open-source AI/frontend tools
- Familiarity with observability platforms that incorporate AI for anomaly detection
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer with a strong foundation in modern web development and a passion for leveraging AI-driven solutions to build smarter, more efficient user experiences
- This role blends hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, where you'll help shape the way we integrate AI—from automating testing and QA workflows to building intelligent UI features
- You’ll work closely with product designers, backend engineers, and our data/ML teams to create seamless, performant, and innovative interfaces that delight users and evolve intelligently over time
- Lead AI supported development of scalable and responsive frontend applications
- Collaborate on system architecture to support AI integration across the frontend stack—e.g., real-time inference pipelines, client-side model interactions, or hybrid processing workflows
- Work with data scientists and ML engineers to embed AI-driven components like:
- Smart UX interactions (predictive inputs, adaptive layouts)
- Automated test generation or visual regression checks using AI
- In-app recommendations or personalization
- Champion frontend quality and reliability through AI-assisted testing, such as visual diffs, behavioral monitoring, and intelligent code review pipelines
- Mentor junior developers and help shape best practices in coding, testing, and performance optimization
- Identify and introduce tools or frameworks that support AI-enabled development, including prompt engineering strategies, API wrappers, or integration patterns for LLM-based services
Our take
The global freight industry is massive, with estimates of its size ranging from $8 trillion to $12 trillion annually. Freight forwarding — the process of organising how and where items will be shipped around the world, and specifically the technology that underpins that work — continues to be a huge area of the logistics market.
Sennder, a digital freight forwarder focused on transporting cargo around Europe, is working towards becoming one of the biggest players in the European market. Sennder's current strategy, following major funding, is to expand rapidly, building upon existing expansions including Cars&Cargo, Uber Freight Europe and Everoad.
Although it is one of the most well-funded of the freight forwarders, Sennder will face direct competition in Europe from the likes of Zencargo, as well as international pressure from international giants such as the US' Flexport. To keep them ahead in the market, Sennder must ensure it keeps on top of developing tech such as fleet management systems and the use of the blockchain to manage automation. As well as this, they must battle with an increasingly climate-conscious consumer base putting growing pressure on the logistics industry to cut down its environmental costs. Ensuring it keeps a balance between performance and innovation will be crucial to Sennder's success going forward.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$63.5m
LATE VC
May 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $386m
Company benefits
- A fast-growing company, transitioning from startup to scale-up, where your work will make an impact on our growth and lead to several career opportunities
- An international team of 900+ people with 65+ nationalities spread across 7 country offices with English as our company language
- A quarterly feedback and review process for personal development. We also use “Objectives and Key Results” for company goals
- A structured promotion process, providing everyone with fair and transparent career growth
- Learning and development opportunities on the job and through conversations with your manager
- Various opportunities to connect with colleagues, formally and informally, digitally or in person (when allowed), through regular team events, company get-togethers, and partnership events with other companies and local organizers
- When in office: unlimited snacks, drinks, and fruits
- Compliance with COVID-19 restrictions when required with remote interviews, onboarding, and working
Company HQ
Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
David Nothacker
(CEO)David is also the co-founder of SmilingBox, and spent almost 5 years in strategy consultancy at Roland Berger.
Julius Koehler
(Managing Director)Julius began their career in logistics, working for the likes of Daimler, Roland Berger and McKinsey. They were also Senior Director of Business Development at WatchMaster.
Nicolaus Schefenacker
(Managing Director)With an MA in Business Administration, Nicolaus is an ex-strategy consultant for engineered and high tech products.
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