Software Engineer - Laravel

Summary

Strive is a passionate team building a platform that makes a real difference in people’s lives. They are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to work closely with senior management and a small team to build and maintain features across web and mobile platforms, with a focus on critical thinking and ownership in a fast-moving startup.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features across web and mobile platforms using Laravel, Flutter, and React
• Collaborate with the Tech Lead and product team to design, develop, test, and launch new capabilities
• Participate in code reviews, technical planning, and architecture discussions
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested code
• Contribute to database design and performance tuning in MySQL and MongoDB
• Help maintain and improve dev workflows using tools like Bitbucket, AWS, and QA automation tools
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in full stack development
• Think like a product engineer – contribute ideas, spot potential improvements, and help shape the product experience
• Genuinely understand our use cases and be able and willing to communicate with customers when necessary
• Understand and assist with compliance tasks (SOCII, HIPAA, etc..)

Skills

• 2–4+ years of full stack development experience (Laravel experience is required)
• Write clean, maintainable code with experience navigating and improving legacy systems
• Comfortable building features from database to UI
• Strong communicator and collaborator
• Curious, thoughtful, and proactive — you don't wait for someone to tell you what to do
• A problem-solver who cares about usability, performance, and impact
• React and/or Flutter experience is a big plus
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Git-based workflows, and QA/test automation is helpful
• Comfort using quality tools like Rector, PHPStan and Xdebug
• Professional experience developing Flutter applications
• Deep understanding of test frameworks like PHPUnit and Pest
• Experience using AI Augmented development using custom MCPS and agentic models
• Exposure to, or interest in, the U.S. Employee Benefits space

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2–4+ years of full stack development experience (Laravel experience is required)
• Write clean, maintainable code with experience navigating and improving legacy systems
• Comfortable building features from database to UI
• Strong communicator and collaborator
• Curious, thoughtful, and proactive — you don't wait for someone to tell you what to do
• A problem-solver who cares about usability, performance, and impact

Nice to Haves

• React and/or Flutter experience is a big plus
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Git-based workflows, and QA/test automation is helpful
• Comfort using quality tools like Rector, PHPStan and Xdebug
• Professional experience developing Flutter applications
• Deep understanding of test frameworks like PHPUnit and Pest
• Experience using AI Augmented development using custom MCPS and agentic models
• Exposure to, or interest in, the U.S. Employee Benefits space

Benefits

• Work on products that actually improve people’s access to critical benefits
• Small team, real impact — your work won’t get lost in the shuffle
• Collaborative, remote-first culture
• Plenty of growth opportunity as we scale