Hybrid Technical Lead

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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

Job title

Technical Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$210,000 - $260,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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