Tech Lead

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 the 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.

Role

Stellic is at a significant crossroads. Having proved an incredibly strong product‑market fit, and having maintained enviable customer NPS ratings, it’s time to prepare for the next stages of our evolution. Pieces of our architecture have reached their expiration date, yet we continue to have ambitious roadmaps that will allow us to continue to improve the lives of students all over the world. We need someone who can lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our backend 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 alongside product priorities
• Design and lead the implementation of scalable backend architectures 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

Tech Stack

Why Join Stellic?

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Education Administration Programs

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