Lead Full-stack Engineer

About Stellic

We’re building a future where every student can move through their education with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform transforms the student experience, giving them then tools they need to make the right decisions about their degree plans, track their journey, and build an education and career path that’s truly their own.

Stellic is a fast-growing startup backed by leading social impact investors, partnering with top institutions like Cornell, Columbia, UVA, and Ohio State to support over 1 million students across 7 countries. As we scale to serve more universities worldwide, we remain deeply committed to this mission, driven by our values, and committed to building a high-performance team that’s here to make a lasting difference on both students’ lives and higher education.

Stellic Engineers

Stellic engineers combine a rare blend of curiosity, creativity, and business acumen with the ability to deliver pragmatic solutions at high velocity with uncompromising quality. Our mission is to help students, and our engineers always have that in mind as they are building.

The Role

Stellic is at a significant crossroads. Having proved incredibly strong product-market fit, and having maintained enviable customer NPS ratings, it’s time to prepare for the next stages of our evolution. Specifically, we need to continue to disrupt the higher-education software industry with innovative product engineering. We are looking for someone who can lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our existing architecture while at the same time up-leveling our current engineering team’s ability to delight our users with new product capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with the founders and product managers to understand the Why behind each capability in the platform

• Help to drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering-driven priorities along side product priorities 

• Design and lead the implementation of scalable, full-stack solutions for mission-critical enterprise applications

• Build and maintain clean, ergonomic APIs to handle complex business logic and data flows

• Develop and optimize database schemas and queries to process terabytes of data efficiently

• Identify and introduce abstractions to increase the performance and reliability of our systems

• Up-level our general engineering rigor and maturity by mentoring other engineers in best practices, design patterns, and code quality

• Ensure a high-degree of quality by designing robust testing strategies and implementing suites of reliable tests

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer operating at scale

• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to autonomously lead and drive complex implementations

• Deep curiosity, customer empathy, and commitment to engineering as a craft

• Ability to plan, estimate, and manage the technical aspects of project execution and delivery

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to mentor junior developers

• Impeccable communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams

• Deep experience with full-stack engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks (Python/Django, AngularJS, and React a plus)

• Deep experience with ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, real-time streaming, etc; (DRF, Celery, Channels a plus)

• Experience with both single- and multi-tenant architectures

• Advanced skills in cloud deployment and hyperscalers (AWS a plus)

• Strong proficiency in designing and optimizing SQL databases and complex SQL queries (PostgreSQL a plus)

• Experience with asynchronous / event-based programming, message / event queues, etc.

• Strong background in API design, documentation, and versioning strategies

• Solid understanding of software testing, CI/CD practices, observability, etc. (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus a plus)

• Comfortable with travel (domestic and international)

Our Tech Stack

While we plan on introducing new technologies and capabilities, and potentially migrating away from current ones, here is the general shape of our current stack:

• Languages: Python, SQL, Shell

• Frameworks: Django, AngularJS, React, Remix, 

• Databases: PostgreSQL

• Version control: Git (GitHub)

• Cloud: AWS

• Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy

Why Join

• Shape the future of an impact-driven company at the forefront of higher education transformation

• Work closely with an ambitious, mission driven leadership team

• Own and scale the recruiting engine of a high growth company

• Competitive salary, equity, and a culture of excellence, speed, and ownership.

• Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS

• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup

• Flexible, outcome-based culture

• Comprehensive health insurance, with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents on our base plan

• 401K and commuter benefits

• Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

Compensation

$220,000 - $260,000 base salary, plus equity

Work Location

Candidates must be willing to work in-office in the Bay Area 3 days per week as part of our hybrid work culture.

Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.