Senior Software Engineer

Stellic is growing, and we're hiring Senior Software Engineers across all of our product teams. If you're a great engineer who cares about impact and wants to own meaningful work — we want to hear from you. Our HQ is in San Mateo and we have a hybrid office culture so we would prefer that you could come into the office too but we are also open to great remote (within the US) candidates. ABOUT US 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 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. ABOUT YOU You're a strong engineer who takes real ownership of your work — from the first line of code to production. You care about quality, move with urgency, and get energized by problems that have genuine impact. You thrive in small, high-trust teams where you're expected to think, not just execute. AS OUR SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL OWN - Feature delivery end-to-end: Lead impactful projects from scoping through release — shipping new capabilities and improvements that directly change how students and advisors experience Stellic. - Code quality and standards: Hold the bar high on testing, security, accessibility, and the practices that keep a codebase healthy as it scales. - Cross-functional collaboration: Partner closely with Product and Design to make sure what gets built actually solves the right problems — and stay close to customer outcomes. - Mentorship: Help junior engineers grow by sharing context, giving direct feedback, and modeling strong engineering habits. - Engineering initiatives: Contribute to broader efforts that improve scalability, operational efficiency, and how the team ships. TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU SHOULD HAVE - 5+ years of experience in software engineering - Strong fundamentals across front-end and/or back-end development — we care more about how you think and build than the specific stack - Experience shipping production software in a collaborative, fast-moving environment - Testing and CI/CD experience — you know what good looks like and hold yourself to it - Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and fellow engineers - A track record of ownership — you've taken projects from idea to outcome and felt accountable for the result OUR ENGINEERING TEAMS We're hiring across Platform, Progress, Integration, Explore, and Care. - Platform: Owns critical systems such as search, which underpins much of the user experience, as well as a growing set of AI-driven capabilities, including AI Analytics and the AI platform. These systems span both end-user-facing features and internal building blocks used across the product. - Plan: Owns the systems that enable students to plan their academic journey, including degree planning & pathways, scheduling, and registration. - Progress: Owns Stellic's Degree Progress product, which enables students and administrators to track progress toward degree requirements and academic goals. - Integration: Responsible for the critical bridge between university Studen