About Stellic
At Stellic, we empower universities to transform the student experience, helping millions of students navigate their academic journeys with clarity and confidence. As a fast-growing Series A/B startup, we are scaling our team to serve more institutions worldwide—while staying deeply committed to our mission, values, and high-performance culture.
Today, we are partnered with universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower 1M+ students to take control of their academic journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform gives students the tools they need to plan ahead, stay on track, and succeed, from day one through graduation
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 is to help students, and our engineers always have that in mind as they are building.
Why This 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. The naive implementations of our data pipelines 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 data pipelines 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
- Be a key decision-maker in selecting our forward-looking front-end architecture and technology stack
- Develop a strategy for iteratively migrating our legacy front-end to our new front-end architecture
- Design and lead the implementation of scalable, full-stack solutions for mission-critical enterprise applications
- 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
What you'll need:
- 5+ years of experience as a frontend engineer working 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
What we need from you:
- Expert-level skills working with modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, WebSockets, etc.)
- Deep experience with front-stack engineering using TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (AngularJS and React a plus)
- A proven track-record of building world-class end-user-facing product experiences
- A solid foundational working with designers on design systems as well as authoring and maintaining shared components
- Deep experience delivering high-performance, low-latency front-end solutions across multiple regions at the edge using modern CDNs like Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.
- Experience working with front-end analytics and experimentation frameworks
- Strong background in API design, documentation, and versioning strategies
- Well-formed opinions based on years of experience ensuring quality through predictable, scalable, and reliable end-to-end testing
- Solid understanding of software testing, CI/CD practices, observability, etc. (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus a plus)
What Tech We Use:
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 Stellic?
- Shape the future of education by solving meaningful problems and tackling a $200B challenge with a platform loved by students and trusted by top universities, making a lasting impact on millions of lives.
- Work alongside passionate, brilliant minds from leading companies like Splunk, Epic, Calm, Microsoft, IBM, Careem, Marketo, and Lattice.
- Enjoy a dollar-pegged salary, shielding you from volatile PKR rates and inflation
- Comprehensive health insurance to keep you and your family covered.
- Transport coverage to ensure rising fuel prices doesn’t slow you down!
- Lead projects, mentor others, and advance your leadership as you drive strategic initiatives.
- Benefit from a flexible hybrid work model focused on impact and execution.
- Experience annual international retreats to stunning locations.
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.
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What We Do
Stellic is an integrated planning & advising platform that empowers today's students to seamlessly plan their semesters with the best-fit courses. It keeps advisors less busy and more informed.
