Principal Software Engineer
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal🇺🇸 USA
2d ago
Stellic·3 months ago
Stellic is growing! We're looking for an Integration Lead to own the systems that connect university Student Information Systems to Stellic. This is mission-critical infrastructure where data correctness and reliability directly affect everything our product does — and we need a technical leader to drive our integration architecture into its next phase.
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 their own.
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.
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 Integration team is responsible for the critical bridge between university Student Information Systems (SIS) and Stellic. This integration layer is foundational to ensuring that Stellic's data remains accurate, up-to-date, and trustworthy. The team owns the systems that power this bridge end-to-end, including integration pipelines, data models, and the interfaces that expose external data across the product. This requires navigating a wide range of external systems, each with its own complexity and nuances, and translating that into standardized, coherent internal representations that the rest of the product can rely on.
The team is also responsible for evolving Stellic's integration approach, consolidating multiple legacy patterns into a new, well-defined standard that will support future scale and product development.
As a technical lead on Integration, you will play a central role in shaping how external data flows through Stellic, with direct impact on the reliability and trustworthiness of the entire platform.
You've designed and operated high-reliability integration systems before, and you know what it takes to build for data correctness at scale — fault-tolerant, observable, and easy to debug when something goes wrong. You bring strong judgment to defining standards and patterns, and you know how to make complex, messy external systems fit cleanly into a coherent internal model.
SIS integration systems, end to end: Own the technical direction and evolution of the systems that bridge university Student Information Systems and Stellic — including integration pipelines, data models, and the interfaces that expose external data across the product.
A new integration standard: Define and drive the adoption of a consolidated integration architecture, replacing multiple legacy patterns with a consistent, scalable approach that will support Stellic's next phase of growth.
Data correctness and reliability: Ensure systems are fault-tolerant, observable, and easy to debug, with clear guarantees around data integrity and behavior across a wide range of heterogeneous external data sources.
External system complexity: Design systems that reliably handle varied SIS environments while maintaining clean, well-defined internal representations the rest of the product can depend on.
Engineering excellence: Drive engineering excellence by defining and mentoring on best practices, design patterns, and code quality across the team.
8+ years of backend engineering experience operating at scale, with a track record of leading complex implementations as a technical lead
Background designing and operating high-reliability integration systems with strong guarantees around data correctness
Expertise building fault-tolerant, observable systems that are easy to debug in production
Experience working with complex external systems and translating them into clean, well-defined internal models
Strong judgment in defining and evolving integration standards and patterns across a codebase
Strong proficiency in SQL and database optimization (PostgreSQL a plus)
Comfort with asynchronous / event-based architectures
Clear and effective communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams
Deep curiosity, customer empathy, and commitment to engineering as a craft
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
Frameworks: Django, Angular, React, Remix
Databases: PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis
Version control: Git (GitHub)
Cloud: AWS
Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy
Observability & Analytics: Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, PostHog, Metabase
Both single and multi-tenant architecture
Shape the future of higher education at a company leading the transformation of student success.
Work alongside an ambitious, mission-driven leadership team building something meaningful.
Own a piece of the journey with competitive salary, meaningful equity and a culture of excellence, speed and ownership.
Thrive in a flexible, outcome-driven culture built on trust and autonomy.
Exceptional benefits, including health insurance with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents.
401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats in incredible locations.
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.