Senior Full Stack Engineer

GradGuard - College Life Protected; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Wellness stipend

401(k) with company match

Student loan assistance

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

GradGuard’s Technology team is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to own and deliver high-quality software. You’ll build PHP/Laravel backend services on event-driven architectures, create REST and GraphQL APIs, and bring UIs to life with Vue 3, Nuxt, and TypeScript. The role is remote and open to candidates across most U.S.

states (excluding CA, CO, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VT, WA, DC). You’ll collaborate with product and design, write tests, mentor teammates, and help scale our financial

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Strong PHP MVC experience, Laravel preferred.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Experience building or consuming REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Frontend experience with Vue3, Nuxt, and TypeScript.
• Familiarity with relational/non-relational databases like MySQL/MongoDB.
• Ability to write automated tests (unit/integration/E2E).

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement PHP/Laravel backend services within event-sourced financial workflows.
• Collaborate with product/design to deliver new sites and features.
• Write automated tests to ensure quality and reliability.
• Provide guidance to improve usability, scalability, and performance.
• Mentor and support the existing web engineering team.
• Understand feature interactions with other systems and services.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Vue3

Nuxt

TypeScript

Tailwind

REST API

GraphQL

Testing

Event-driven

Stripe integration

MySQL

MongoDB

Tools

Laravel

Vue3

Nuxt

TypeScript

Tailwind

Stripe API

Job description

GradGuard’s Technology team works hard, moves fast, and has each other’s backs. As we step into an exciting new phase of growth, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer that’s ready to take ownership, push boundaries, and build something meaningful. You'll spend most of your time in PHP/Laravel services built on event-sourced, event-driven patterns, working within financial workflows where data consistency and security aren't optional, including integrations with payment processing platforms like Stripe. You'll also build and consume both REST and GraphQL APIs, and bring it all to life on the frontend with Vue 3, Nuxt, and TypeScript.

The ideal candidate for this role is a proactive, inventive professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is committed to building high quality, efficient, scalable, and impactful software solutions. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent teamwork, desire to collaborate, and the ability to effectively communicate complex insights to stakeholders at all levels.

This is position is remote and open to candidates in most U.S. states, with the exception of: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C.

What you'll do

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

Qualifications

• At least 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 collaborating and working with cross-functional teams (including product and design).
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming design patterns.
• Advanced experience with relational or non-relational databases, such as MySQL and MongoDB.
• Experience in building and consuming both REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience integrating with payment processing APIs, such as Stripe.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Ability to create, support, and enhance front-end component libraries.
• Enjoy making the team better via mentorship and experience.

Beyond a fulfilling and challenging role, you'll get

• Opportunity to enroll in comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance. We pay 100% of employee premiums and 75% of your family’s premiums.
• A lifestyle spending account where you can receive up to $400 in reimbursements for wellness activities.
• 401(K) retirement plan with company matching up to 5% of compensation deferred. Employee and employer contributions are 100% vested.
• Student loan and education assistance, after one year of employment at GradGuard. We’re learners and embrace education.
• Unlimited PTO after completing the 30-day introductory period. Plus, 12 paid holidays and paid parental leave.

About GradGuard

As the leader in college tuition and renters insurance, GradGuard serves more than 1.7 million students across 1,900+ institutions.

Our national technology platform embeds innovative insurance protections into the enrollment processes of over 700 institutional partners, empowering schools to increase college completion rates and reduce the financial impact of preventable losses.

GradGuard supports College Life Protected, a social purpose entity that promotes research, professional development, and best practices that strengthen campus communities, families, society and the economic competitiveness of our nation.

GradGuard was recognized as one of the Top 50 Financial Technology Companies of 2025 by The Financial Technology Report, a RISE Internship Award winner, and a Phoenix Business Journal Best Places to Work finalist, GradGuard remains committed to innovation, excellence, and supporting students and families.

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