Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

at Stellic

• Job title: Senior Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Cloud, Django, ElasticSearch, ETL, Grafana, Postgres, Prometheus, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Karachi, Pakistan

About the role

• Senior Backend Engineer responsible for backend architecture upgrades and team mentoring. Working at a fast-growing startup transforming higher education for over 1 million students.

Responsibilities

• 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 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

Requirements

• 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 and ability to mentor junior developers
• Impeccable communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams
• Deep experience with backend engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks (Python/Django 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 implementing secure AuthN/AuthZ systems using OAuth2, SAML, JWTs, RBAC/ABAC, etc.
• Experience implementing search engine capabilities (ElasticSearch 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)
• Proficiency in building and managing data orchestration pipelines for ETL and other large-scale data processing problems using high-level languages like Python and frameworks like Dagster, Airflow, etc.

Benefits

• Competitive USD salary
• Generous stock options in a Series B stage startup
• Comprehensive health insurance. Stellic covers 100% of premiums for you and your dependents, plus 50% for parents.
• Commute benefits to make daily life easier.
• Annual international retreats in some of the world’s most beautiful cities and towns.