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Tech Lead - Progress

San Mateo, CA

About Stellic

Stellic is a unified SaaS platform designed to empower all students on their way to degree completion and career success. Originally built by students to more effectively plan ahead, today we’re proud to serve all segments of higher education at institutions like UChicago, Ohio State, Johnson County Community College, Cornell College, and University of Oklahoma, and many more.

A bit about our philosophy: we’ve put student experience at the heart of our platform to address some of higher ed’s biggest current challenges. In fact, 40% of students who enter college will get lost while navigating their degree requirements and ultimately drop out — costing $200B to institutions annually. A big cause is that most of higher education has been using antiquated and disparate tools to manage student progress, and that’s led to low student engagement, overwhelmed advisors, wasted resources. Stellic gives students a beautiful, user-friendly experience to plan ahead and manage their progress, helping them make informed decisions and take ownership. That data is then put to good use. Advisors and administrators have access to student planning and progress data like never before, helping to scale support and allocate resources based on what the students need. It’s a win-win for everyone involved!

With millions of students in higher ed, Stellic’s work is far from finished. By joining our team, you’ll help step closer to our mission of empowering all students to have the best-possible experiences and outcomes.

About the Team

The Progress team is responsible for designing, architecting, building, and maintaining our core competency and flagship product: the degree progress engine. At its core, the engine is responsible for computing accurate progress towards degree completion in real-time. The team works through a combination of algorithms, system design, and infrastructure scaling to solve for this complex, NP-hard problem.

 

About the Role

This is an opportunity to shape the future of the student experience in higher ed. As a Tech Lead, you’ll be leading all areas of the Progress team’s delivery end-to-end — working closely with the founders, PMs, and other engineers. You’ll do this at a fast pace, high-growth, mission-driven series A/B startup in enterprise SaaS that is past product/market fit stage and ready to scale.

Given our stage, there is ample opportunity to influence all aspects of the engineering org: including infrastructure, internal tooling, as well as culture and process!

In this key role, you’ll:

  • Drive the architecture and up-leveling of the progress computation engine for precision, performance, and scalability to keep up with customer growth
  • Build a culture of high quality delivery through technical and operational investments around best practices and tooling
  • Lead a team of software engineers including hands-on work, task planning, and technical mentorship
  • Own the overall planning, execution and success of projects that directly improve the team’s top-line impact metrics
  • Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stellic’s engineering management team

You'd be a great fit for this role if you have the following skills and experiences:

  • 8+ years of software engineering, and at least 2 years leading a team of developers
  • Are good with, and deeply enjoy real world application of algorithms and optimization problems
  • Are able to simplify complex mathematical problems into simple, extensible, and performant code
  • Building, maintaining, and scaling backend systems and APIs
  • Are a backend-heavy full stack engineer
  • Are comfortable with low-level optimizations as well as infrastructure scaling to architect for scale and performance
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills that work for engineers and non-engineers, including customers
  • A track record of improving a complex team, product, or system over time (measured in terms of simplicity, scale and end-user impact)
  • Experience working with remote engineers (nice to have)

 

Salary: $175,000 - $225,000 base salary, plus equity

 

Why Join?

  • Be part of the customer-centric team that's addressing the core issues in higher ed via an expandable platform — one that’s overwhelmingly 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 ed 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

 

Some of the thing 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.

 

Why Join?

  • Be part of the customer-centric team that's addressing the core issues in higher ed via an expandable platform — one that’s overwhelmingly 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 ed 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

Some of the thing 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.

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