Lead Frontend Engineer

About Stellic

At Stellic, we empower universities to transform the student experience, helping millions of students navigate their academic journeys with clarity and confidence. As a fast-growing Series A/B startup, we are scaling our team to serve more institutions worldwide—while staying deeply committed to our mission, values, and high-performance culture.

Today, we are partnered with universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower 1M+ 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

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. To build a best-in-class user experience for our customers, we need our front-end architecture to unlock it. We need someone who can lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our existing architecture 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 (AngularJS 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)

What Tech We Use:

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, AngularJS, React, Remix, 
• Databases: PostgreSQL
• Version control: Git (GitHub)
• Cloud: AWS
• Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy

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

Compensation:  $220,000 - $260,000 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.

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.