Technical Lead

Lead the evolution of Stellic's backend systems, mentor the team, and drive engineering excellence.

• •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.
• •As we've grown, parts of our architecture have been pushed to their limits.
• •We're investing in the next phase of scale while continuing to deliver ambitious product roadmaps.
• •We're looking for technical leaders who can evolve our backend systems and up-level the team to delight our users with new product capabilities.
• •What You'll Do Drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering-driven priorities along side 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 Drive engineering excellence by defining and mentoring on best practices, design patterns, and code quality.
• •Ensure quality by designing robust testing strategies and implementing suites of reliable tests Who You Are Previous experience as a technical lead required 5+ years of experience as a backend 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 Desire to mentor junior developers Clear and effective communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams Deep experience with backend engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks -
• •ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, real-time streaming, etc.