Remote Senior Full-Stack Engineer — PHP/Laravel & Vue 3

Phx Fwd; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GradGuard, a leader in college tuition and renters insurance, seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to own and build critical software. You’ll work on PHP/Laravel services, integrate payments with Stripe, and deliver REST and GraphQL APIs with a Vue3/TypeScript frontend.

The role emphasizes data security, performance, and collaboration with product and design teams across a remote, US-based team. Strong problem-solving and mentorship skills are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Advanced experience with PHP MVC frameworks, preferably Laravel.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, including asynchronous, queue-driven processing (e.g., Laravel Jobs/Queues or equivalent).
• Experience with event-sourcing architecture and libraries.
• Experience working with modern front-end technologies, like Vue3, Nuxt, TypeScript and Tailwind.
• Experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Experience integrating with payment processing APIs, such as Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and support PHP/Laravel backend services, prioritizing data consistency, security and performance within event-sourced financial frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop sites from scratch or enhance existing software to meet requirements.
• Develop, implement, and support features with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Write automated unit, functional, and end-to-end tests to support development and bug fixes.
• Provide code recommendations and design optimizations to improve usability, scalability and performance.
• Assist in sharing, servicing, and mentoring the existing web engineering team.
• Deeply understand technical details of owned features and their interactions with other systems.

Skills

Software Engineering

Laravel

Event-driven architecture

Vue3

TypeScript

REST & GraphQL APIs

Stripe integration

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

GradGuard, a leader in college tuition and renters insurance, seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to own and build critical software. You’ll work on PHP/Laravel services, integrate payments with Stripe, and deliver REST and GraphQL APIs with a Vue3/TypeScript frontend.

The role emphasizes data security, performance, and collaboration with product and design teams across a remote, US-based team. Strong problem-solving and mentorship skills are valued.