Stellic - Platform Lead

• Estimated base salary $235K – $275K • 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 Platform Lead to own the technical direction of the systems at the center of our architecture. We're investing heavily in AI capabilities, search infrastructure, and shared platform primitives — and we need a technical leader who can shape both what we build and how teams across engineering build on top of it. • Platform 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 PLATFORM TEAM • The Platform team is responsible for building both foundational infrastructure and key product surfaces that power Stellic's core experiences. The team 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. • search • AI Analytics • AI platform • In addition to owning features end-to-end, the team develops shared primitives such as workflow infrastructure and AI systems used broadly across engineering. The team is currently focused on improving the reliability and scalability of these systems, while continuing to build new capabilities that expand what's possible across the product. • workflow infrastructure • As a technical lead on Platform, your work will have broad impact across teams and the overall product, shaping both the systems we build and how other teams build on top of them. • You've built scalable AI platforms and ElasticSearch-powered search systems at scale, and you understand what it means to create infrastructure that other teams actually want to build on. You think carefully about abstractions and interfaces, hold a high bar for quality across shared systems, and bring genuine ownership to everything — from architecture decisions down to code review. • 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