Senior Backend Engineer (integrations)

Stellic Engineers

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.

The 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

Design and lead the implementation of scalable backend architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications

Build and maintain clean data orchestration pipelines

Develop and optimize database schemas and queries to process terabytes of data efficiently

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

Who You Are

5+ years of experience as a API / integrations / backend / data engineer operating at scale (minimum 3+ years of experience in data engineering specifically)

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

Proven track record building and managing APIs, data integrations and data orchestration pipelines for ETL and other large-scale data processing problems using high-level languages like Python and frameworks like Dagster, Airflow, etc.

Deep knowledge of and experience with data processing frameworks like DuckDB, Polars, Pandas, Kafka, Spark, etc.

Strong understanding of data infrastructure, governance, compliance and how enterprises use data

Experience working with iPaaS solutions like FiveTran, Talend, Airbyte, etc.

Deep experience with ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, etc; (DRF, Celery 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 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)

Our Tech Stack

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, Angular, React, Remix,

Databases: PostgreSQL

Version control: Git (GitHub)

Cloud: AWS

Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy

Why Join

Shape the future of an impact-driven company at the forefront of higher education transformation

Work closely with an ambitious, mission driven leadership team

Own and scale the recruiting engine of a high growth company

Competitive salary, equity, and a culture of excellence, speed, and ownership.

Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS

Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup

Flexible, outcome-based culture

Comprehensive health insurance, with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents on our base plan

401K and commuter benefits

Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

Compensation

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

Work Location

Candidates must be willing to work in-office in the Bay Area 3 days per week as part of our hybrid work culture.