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 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
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What We Do
Parento is the first and only paid parental leave insurance program, offering a white-glove solution to roll-out or expand paid parental leave affordably and easily. Designed to support working parents, our program mitigates the financial cost, risk, and management of paid parental leave for HR, payroll, and finance. To enhance the employee experience and successfully support working parents, Parento's program includes integrated, proactive one-on-one emotional and parent coaching.
Directly linked to increases in retention, workplace diversity, productivity, and parental emotional wellness, paid parental leave is becoming a deal breaker among today's family-first generation. Parento's holistic approach to paid parental leave enables companies to retain, attract, and promote working parents, especially working moms.
