Senior Full Stack Engineer

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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GradGuard - College Life Protected

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🛡️ Insurance

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Insurance • Education • B2C

GradGuard - College Life Protected is a company that helps students and families protect their investment in higher education by offering tuition insurance, renters insurance, and related student protection products. The company partners with colleges and universities to embed insurance options into enrollment processes and serves both students and institutions with claims support and customer service. Since 2009 GradGuard has insured over 1. 7 million members at more than 600 institutions, providing coverage for tuition withdrawals for medical reasons, personal property, and other student-specific risks.

📋 Description

• Architect, implement, and support PHP/Laravel backend services within event-sourced financial frameworks • Prioritize data consistency, security, and performance • Collaborate with product, design, and other cross-functional teams to develop new sites and enhance existing websites and software • Develop, implement, and support features using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS • Write automated unit, functional, and end-to-end tests for feature development and bug fixes • Provide code recommendations and design optimizations to improve application usability, scalability, and performance • Drive adoption of recommended improvements • Share knowledge with, service, and mentor the existing web engineering team • Understand technical details of owned features and their interactions with other systems

🎯 Requirements

• 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 with modern front-end technologies, including Vue 3, Nuxt, TypeScript, and Tailwind • Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing • Experience collaborating 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 building and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs • Experience integrating with payment processing APIs, such as Stripe • Experience with JavaScript build tools, such as Vite • Ability to create, support, and enhance front-end component libraries • Experience with mentorship • Candidates must be located in an eligible U.S. state; California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C. are excluded

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Mentorship and professional development through sharing and servicing the web engineering team