Tech Lead

Stellic

Tech Lead at Stellic driving technical direction of Degree Progress product. Leading a team to enhance accuracy and scalability in the educational technology space.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeSan Mateo • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $210,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the systems that orchestrate and operationalize results from the SAT solver into user-facing experiences — applying, validating, and presenting degree progress outcomes in a way that students and advisors can trust.
Partner closely with our algorithms lead to ensure seamless integration between compute outputs and product behavior across the full range of edge cases that complex degree requirements introduce.
Design and implement testing infrastructure specifically built to validate complex and highly variable degree requirements — one of the team's biggest current investments.
Ensure the system delivers reliable, explainable outcomes across edge cases, with clear guarantees around performance and behavior.
Drive alignment on engineering-driven priorities alongside product priorities.
Drive engineering excellence by defining and mentoring on best practices, design patterns, and code quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of backend engineering experience operating at scale, with a track record of leading complex implementations as a technical lead
Strong intuition for designing systems that produce correct, explainable outcomes in ambiguous or edge-case-heavy domains
Experience building or working with purpose-built testing frameworks for validating complex business logic
Ability to reason about and debug systems where correctness verification is non-trivial
Expertise building highly optimized, robust systems at scale
Deep experience with backend engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks
Comfort with asynchronous / event-based architectures
Clear and effective communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams
Deep curiosity, customer empathy, and commitment to engineering as a craft and a desire to mentor junior developers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Exceptional benefits, including health insurance with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents.
401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats in incredible locations.

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringtesting frameworkssystem designdebugginghigh-level programming languagesasynchronous architecturesevent-based architecturesperformance guaranteescode qualitydesign patterns

Soft Skills

clear communicationcollaborationcustomer empathymentoringengineering excellencecuriosityleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detail