Senior Full Stack Engineer - Remote (Laravel, Vue3, Stripe)

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 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