Senior Backend Engineer

Stellic


Date: 1 day ago
City: Karachi
Contract type: Full time
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. Pieces of our architecture 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 backend 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 and ability to mentor junior developers
  • Impeccable communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams
  • Deep experience with backend engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks (Python/Django a plus)
  • Deep experience with ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, real-time streaming, etc; (DRF, Celery, Channels 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 implementing secure AuthN/AuthZ systems using OAuth2, SAML, JWTs, RBAC/ABAC, etc.
  • Experience implementing search engine capabilities (ElasticSearch 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)
  • Proficiency in building and managing data orchestration pipelines for ETL and other large-scale data processing problems using high-level languages like Python and frameworks like Dagster, Airflow, etc.

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 Stellic?

  • 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

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