Intermediate Full-Stack Laravel Developer

About Frogtummy

Frogtummy is a  SaaS provider in the Charter School industry.

We create software that makes everyday school operations smoother, simpler, and more enjoyable for staff and families alike.

Our ecosystem of products helps schools  increase enrollments, save money, generate revenue, and strengthen school-to-family connections.

Our platform supports everything from  student data and communications to operations, lottery, application, enrollment, carpool, payment systems, and attendance — all connected through a seamless web experience and mobile app.

We build tools that make complex systems simple for  teachers, administrators, parents, and students.

Role Description

We are looking for an  Intermediate Developer who can independently deliver well-scoped features and bug fixes in a mature Laravel application. This person should be comfortable maintaining existing systems while helping us refactor a large legacy codebase toward a cleaner, modern architecture..

You’ll collaborate with a small, creative team where your ideas matter. This role offers plenty of room to learn, experiment, and grow your skills while contributing to meaningful software that impacts real schools.

What You'll Work With

• PHP 8  and  Laravel
• The TALL stack: Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire
• Legacy frontend code using  jQuery ,  Bootstrap ,  Sass , and  Blade
• PostgreSQL  and  Eloquent
• Redis  queues, scheduled jobs, and  Laravel Horizon
• Pest  and automated browser testing
• Third-party APIs , webhooks, imports, and exports
• Laravel Forge ,  Sentry ,  AWS S3 , and  Git
• AI-assisted and agentic coding tools

What We're Looking For

• Roughly 5 or more years of professional  PHP or Laravel experience , or equivalent practical experience
• Strong understanding of  object-oriented programming and  SOLID principles
• Experience organizing code into small, focused, reusable classes with clear responsibilities
• Practical experience building responsive and accessible interfaces with the  TALL stack
• Experience maintaining frontend applications built with  jQuery  and  Bootstrap
• Ability to  safely modernize legacy code incrementally while preserving existing behaviour
• Familiarity with common  Laravel patterns , including:
  • Thin controllers and Livewire components
  • Service and Action classes
  • DTOs and typed data boundaries
  • Form Requests, policies, events, listeners, and jobs
  • Eloquent relationships, transactions, and query optimization
• Experience creating reusable Blade components using  Atomic Design principles
• Ability to write focused feature and unit tests with  Pest
• Experience debugging queues, scheduled jobs, external integrations, and production issues
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, validation, tenant scoping, and secure data handling
• Experience using AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to investigate problems, implement changes, write tests, and document decisions
• Ability to critically review AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with the project’s architecture
• Strong written communication and the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly

Nice to Have

• Experience with  modular Laravel architecture , including organizing features into self-contained modules and loading them through service providers
• Experience with  education technology or  student information systems
• Experience with  payment, messaging, attendance, enrollment, or parent-facing applications
• Familiarity with  Laravel Pennant, Sanctum, Horizon, Spatie Laravel Data , and  feature flags
• Experience integrating with systems such as  Skyward, Aspire, OneRoster , or similar platforms
• Experience with  CSV  or  Excel imports and  exports
• Experience  monitoring applications with Sentry and  managing deployments through Laravel Forge

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• A  creative, people-first team that values quality and curiosity
• Work that matters — your code directly helps schools run better
• The chance to  shape real SaaS products used nationwide
• A  hybrid, flexible setup with local Utah collaboration
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Low bureaucracy, high ownership, and visible impact

How to Apply

Send your resume or portfolio link to View email address on us.fitly.work . 

Include a short note about a project you’re proud of and what you learned from it.

Subject line:  Laravel Developer – [Your Name]