Senior Full-stack Engineer at Stellic

Feedinkoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Hybrid work culture

401(k)

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Stellic is recruiting a full‑stack engineer to drive architecture upgrades and uplift the engineering team’s ability to deliver new product capabilities. You will design scalable, full‑stack solutions, build robust APIs, and mentor peers while collaborating with founders and product managers.

Based in the Bay Area with a hybrid model (3 days in‑office), you will work on enterprise-grade education technology and data platforms, impacting millions of students and institutions worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to autonomously lead complex implementations.
• Excellent problem-solving and mentoring skills.
• Impeccable communication with product, design, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with founders and product managers to understand the why behind each capability in the platform.
• Help drive alignment on prioritization of engineering-driven priorities alongside product priorities.
• Design and lead scalable, full-stack solutions for mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Build and maintain APIs to handle complex business logic and data flows.
• Develop and optimize database schemas and queries for large data volumes.
• Identify abstractions to improve performance and reliability of systems.
• Mentor other engineers in best practices and code quality.
• Design robust testing strategies and implement reliable test suites.

Skills

Full-stack exp

Ownership mindset

Mentoring

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Python

Django

AngularJS

React

Remix

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

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 worth it.

About Stellic

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 our 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.

What Sets Stellic Engineers Apart

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 stays student‑centric as we build.

Role Overview

We need an experienced full‑stack engineer to lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our existing architecture while up‑leveling our engineering team’s ability to delight users with new product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with founders and product managers to understand the why behind each capability in the platform.
• Help drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering‑driven priorities alongside 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.

Qualifications

• 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 Technical Experience

• Full‑stack engineering using high‑level programming languages and frameworks (Python/Django, AngularJS, React)
• ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, real‑time streaming (DRF, Celery, Channels)
• Single‑ and multi‑tenant architectures.
• Cloud deployment and hyperscalers (AWS).
• Designing and optimizing SQL databases and complex SQL queries (PostgreSQL).
• Asynchronous / event‑based programming, message / event queues.
• API design, documentation, and versioning strategies.
• Software testing, CI/CD practices, observability (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus).

Technology Stack

Languages: Python, SQL, Shell
Frameworks: Django, AngularJS, React, Remix
Databases: PostgreSQL
Version control: Git (GitHub)
Cloud: AWS
Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy

Why Join

• Contribute to a customer‑centric team addressing core issues in higher education.
• Join at the ground level of a promising startup and build/lead a team critical for growth.
• Work with thought leaders in higher education and SaaS.
• Culture of ownership, new ideas, and creativity.
• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup.
• Flexible, outcome‑based culture.
• Comprehensive health insurance (Stellic covers 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents).
• 401(k) and commuter benefits.
• Annual international retreats in beautiful cities and towns.

Benefits

• Medical insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Commuter benefits.

Compensation

Base salary: $160,000–$200,000 (plus equity).

Location

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

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.