Senior Engineering Manager

About Stellic

We’re building a future where every student can move through their education with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform transforms the student experience, giving them the tools they need to make the right decisions about their degree plans, track their journey, and build an education and career path that’s truly worth it.

Stellic is a fast-growing startup backed by leading social impact investors, partnering with top institutions like Cornell, Columbia, UVA, and Ohio State to support over 1 million students across 7 countries. As we scale to serve more universities worldwide, we remain deeply committed to this mission, driven by our values, and committed to building a high-performance team that’s here to make a lasting difference on both students’ lives and higher education.

What Sets Stellic Engineering 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.

Engineering leaders at Stellic inspire and motivate engineers to push the limits in their creativity and productivity, grounded in pragmatism and an orientation toward solving customer problems.

Why This role

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Stellic, you'll have the opportunity to lead multiple squads and workstreams, each consisting of talented engineers and tech leads, to build innovative solutions that empower students and higher education institutions worldwide. You’ll thrive in an environment that values collaboration, cross-cultural teamwork, and impactful engineering.

What you'll do:

• Manage 2–3 engineering squads of 3-7 engineers each distributed between HQ (San Mateo, CA) and our hub in Pakistan.
• Build a culture of high performance, collaboration, and ownership across distributed teams.
• Guide and mentor tech leads and engineers, fostering career growth and development.
• Drive squad delivery at high velocity with uncompromising quality.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Product and Design to define roadmaps and prioritize initiatives.
• Make strategic technical decisions to scale systems and improve performance.
• Ensure seamless execution in the face of challenges unique to distributed teams, including time zones and communication.

What you'll need:

• At least 5 years in a software engineering management role.
• Proven experience managing globally distributed engineering teams.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams.
• Ability to facilitate communication and collaboration across diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds.
• Deep understanding of technical architecture and system design.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to make strategic trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

What we need from you:

• Unusually high EQ and ability to build collaborative, cross-functional relationships
• Consistent inspirational leadership in the face of scale-up challenges
• Strong background in modern web technologies, ideally in a SaaS context
• A proven track-record of delivering world-class end-user-facing product experiences at high-velocity with uncompromising quality
• Relentless customer focus and empathy

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 Stellic?

• Shape the future of education by solving meaningful problems and tackling a $200B challenge with a platform loved by students and trusted by top universities, making a lasting impact on millions of lives.
• Work alongside passionate, brilliant minds from leading companies like Splunk, Epic, Calm, Microsoft, IBM, Careem, Marketo, and Lattice.
• Comprehensive health insurance, with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents on our base plan
• Transport coverage to ensure rising fuel prices doesn’t slow you down!
• Lead projects, mentor others, and advance your leadership as you drive strategic initiatives.
• Benefit from a flexible hybrid work model focused on impact and execution.
• Experience annual international retreats to stunning locations.

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.