Why Stellic

Remember the days when you were navigating your academic path — the feeling of being lost, unsure of which courses to take, or uncertain about your graduation timeline? At Stellic, we get it because our journey started just like yours. Born out of the challenges faced by international students at Carnegie Mellon, we've grown into a movement that's reshaping the future of education by addressing one of higher education's biggest challenges: the $200B dropout crisis.

Today, we've partnered with 75 universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower 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.

At Stellic, we believe in the power of personalized education, and our culture thrives on collaboration, innovation, and the passion to solve meaningful problems. Your ideas will have a real-world impact, as you work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry to reimagine what education can be. Join us; together, we'll help millions of students worldwide own their educational future.

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 (Angular 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)

Compensation:$160,000 - $200,000 base salary, plus equity

Why Join?

Be part of a customer-centric team that is addressing the core issues in higher education via an expandable platform that is overwhelming loved by students and valued by administrators
The opportunity to join at the ground level of a promising and developing organization, and build/lead a team critically responsible for its growth
Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS
Be part of a culture where ownership, new ideas, and creativity is celebrated
Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
Flexible, outcome-based culture
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
401K and commuter benefits
Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

What We've Heard

Student: "Having an interface that allows you to look at everything reaffirms the idea that all the work you're putting in day-to-day, it is getting you somewhere. It is not all for naught"
Advisor: "Just had the most AMAZING advising session...a student was changing majors and they built a new plan to show her parents within minutes. She was beaming (and so was I!)...this is incredible to use"
Administrator: "Stellic has caused us to be more inspired about the work that we do. Having a platform that is agile, responsive, flexible and shows potential for moving forward - and a collaborative team approach - has been remarkable."

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.