Hybrid Technical Lead

at Stellic

• Job title: Technical Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $210,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Postgres, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Mateo, United States

About the role

• Technical Lead at Stellic designing scalable backend architectures for transforming student experiences. Leading engineering excellence and mentoring while collaborating with a mission-driven team.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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.
• Strong proficiency in designing and optimizing SQL databases and complex SQL queries (PostgreSQL a plus)
• Experience with asynchronous / event-based architectures
• Strong background in API design, documentation, and versioning strategies
• Solid understanding of software testing, CI/CD practices, observability, etc.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns
• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
• Flexible, outcome-based culture