**About Parento**
**Parento** is the first provider for paid parental leave, distributing the first and only paid parental leave insurance and parental support program. Our holistic program enables companies to offer paid maternity and paternity leave to all employees.
Designed to support working parents while alleviating HR’s workload, Parento’s white glove leave concierge handles the complexities of leave management, payroll calculations, compliance, and claims, while providing emotional and parent coaching for employees. Our proprietary program boasts a 95% return-to-work rate and guides employees through the process before, during, and after leave to ensure a seamless re-onboarding.
**About the Role**
We’re seeking a driven, curious, and detail-oriented **Full Stack Software Engineer** to join our growing engineering team. This role is ideal for someone with strong skills in **PHP**, **Laravel**, and **VueJS**, that's eager to contribute to real-world SaaS products and platforms. You'll work on core systems powering our customer-facing web portal and backend infrastructure while shaping the future of a modern insurance-based program.
**What You’ll Do**
- Develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services that power an enterprise customer portal using **PHP** and the **Laravel** framework.
- Build and enhance frontend interfaces using **Tailwind CSS** and **VueJS**, ensuring responsive, user-friendly design.
- Collaborate closely with our product manager, designers, VP of Engineering, and other internal stakeholders to turn requirements into robust features
- Work on SaaS-based architecture, helping optimize performance, maintainability, reliability and scalability.
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and system design discussions. Comfortable using AI code-generation tools (Cursor AI, Claude, Copilot, etc.)
- Assist in integrating, training and applying **machine learning algorithms** or **big data pipelines** to production workflows
- Contribute to improving the developer experience, CI/CD processes, and internal tools that help with developer productivity
**Technical skills and experience**
- Solid proficiency in **PHP**, **Laravel**, and **VueJS**
- Academic or hands-on experience working on **SaaS products** and **web portals**
- Exposure to or interest in big data processing and **machine learning** concepts
- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git), REST APIs, and databases like MySQL or MariaDB. Familiarity with analytics tools such as Metabase.
- Familiarity with a cloud-based architecture that spans multiple public clouds (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud).
- Excellent written communication skills (we collaborate a LOT on email & Slack).
**Preferred (But Not Required)**
- Prior freelance or full-time work experience in **Fintech** or **InsurTech** industries
- Certification on using any public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with data pipelines or ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Spark)
- Certification in Kubernetes (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - CKAD)
- Comfortable working on WordPress and CMS platforms like Statamic or Ghost
**Salary:** $125-$140k/year
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