Full Stack Software Engineer; Vue​/Laravel – Remote

Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote)

Location:

Remote (US-based)

Reports to:

CTO, Sports Recruits

Sports Recruits is the leading sports recruiting network, connecting athletes, clubs, events, and college coaches in the recruiting process. The company’s network and tools are trusted by sports organizations such as the IWLCA, IMLCA, NFHCA, and Junior Volleyball Association. Every year, millions of connections are made on the network, resulting in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions.

Sports Recruits is part of IMG Academy, the world s leading sports education brand. IMG Academy provides a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for all student-athletes through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, via a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Fla.
• Online coaching via IMG Academy+, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting, via NCSA and Sports Recruits, providing unmatched college recruiting education and services to student-athletes and their families, club coaches, and event operators, and is the premier service for college coaches.

Sports Recruits is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and equal opportunity on our team. Just like the student-athletes we support, we are trying to get better and stronger as a team everyday. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We truly believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better we can serve all student-athletes, as well as their families and coaches, who are pursuing their dreams.

We are a product development team full of fun, intelligent, happy, and hardworking engineers, designers and product managers distributed across the United States. We are scaling our network and building innovative tools to empower student athletes, college coaches, and event operators. Our tools are built on top of technologies that span mobile and web applications, computer vision, and LLMs. Your input, code and problem solving skills will make a direct impact in how we scale and grow the company.

Our stack includes:

• Laravel + PHP8 backend APIs
• Vue.js (v2 and v3) + Inertia.js + Tailwind frontend
• React Native mobile applications
• Python for internal tools and ML/LLM-based features
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, AWS Fargate, and a Jenkins-based CI/CD pipeline

We emphasize performance, security, and maintainability—and we love solving problems that have real-world impact on student-athletes, coaches, and partners.

As a mid-level Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll play a critical role across the entire software lifecycle:

• Implement, and optimize new features across web and mobile platforms
• Contribute to our Vue.js frontend (Inertia.js) and Laravel-based API
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to deliver intuitive, high-impact experiences

You will contribute to solving complex problems that will make our platform even better at connecting thousands of student athletes and college programs. Some interesting projects we’ve recently worked on are:

• In-browser video clipping and editing with computer vision driven isolation effects
• React-native based hybrid iOS/Android app
• Tools for partner events to import rosters of athletes with built-in column mapping, de-duping and validation rules to automatically merge duplicate user data

• 2-3 years of professional software engineering experience
• Expertise in at least one modern programming languages (e.g., PHP, Python, JavaScript, Type Script)
• Experience with at least one PHP MVC framework (Laravel or Symfony)
• Strong frontend experience with Vue, React, or similar frameworks
• Familiarity with relational databases (MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, etc.)
• Comfortable writing and maintaining automated tests (unit, integration, E2E)
• Passion for clean code, system design, and scalable architecture
• Strong communication skills, positive attitude, and a…