Stellic - Tech Lead, Progress

• Estimated base salary $210K – $260K • Offers Equity • At Stellic, total compensation packages are tailored to each candidate and take into account job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, training and current market conditions. • Stellic is growing! We're looking for a Progress Lead to own the technical direction of our Degree Progress product. We're evolving from a search-based system to a SAT solver–driven architecture, and we need a technical leader who can operationalize that algorithmic power into a product that students and universities can genuinely trust. • Progress Lead • 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 • 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 PROGRESS TEAM • The Progress team owns Stellic's Degree Progress product, which enables students and administrators to track progress toward degree requirements and academic goals. The team is split across two closely related areas: • Compute: focuses on the underlying algorithm and correctness of results • Compute: • Product: focuses on applying, validating, and presenting those results in a reliable and intuitive way • Product: • This role leads the entire team, working in close partnership with our algorithms lead. The team's primary focus right now is improving the scalability and reliability of the system, with a heavy emphasis on building purpose-built testing frameworks to validate complex and highly variable degree requirements. • purpose-built testing frameworks • You've built systems where correctness isn't negotiable — where the output needs to be right, explainable, and testable across a massive range of edge cases. You think deeply about validation, debugging, and what it means to deliver reliable outcomes in complex domains. You're as comfortable partnering with an algorithms lead as you are setting technical direction for your own team. • Shape the future of higher education at a company leading the transformation of student success. • Shape the future of higher education • Work alongside an ambitious, mission-driven leadership team building something meaningful. • Work alongside an ambitious, mission-driven leadership team • Own a piece of the journey with competitive salary, meaningful equity and a culture of excellence, speed and ownership. • Own a piece of the journey • Thrive in a flexible, outcome-driven culture built on trust and autonomy. • Thrive in a flexible, outcome-driven culture • 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. • 401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats