Software Engineer - Full Stack

Grad Guard’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 Software Engineer (Full Stack) that’s ready to take ownership, push boundaries, and build something meaningful. 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.

What you'll do

• Work across teams to develop sites from scratch or enhance existing websites and software to meet business requirements.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product and design, to define requirements and deliver optimal technology solutions.
• Create 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 and scalability of the applications and in order maximize performance and adoption.
• Familiarity with technical details of owned features and their interactions with other systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer building production web applications.
• Experience with PHP and MVC frameworks such as Laravel.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, relational databases (MySQL), and API development (REST and Graph
  
  QL).
• Experience with testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working closely with Product and Design.
• Bonus:
  Type Script, Tailwind CSS, front-end component libraries, and a passion for helping teammates grow.

About Grad Guard

As the leader in college tuition and renters insurance, Grad Guard 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 650 institutional partners, empowering schools to increase college completion rates and reduce the financial impact of preventable losses.

Grad Guard 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.

Grad Guard 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, Grad Guard remains committed to innovation, excellence, and supporting students and families.

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