Lead Backend Engineer (Integrations)

Job Description

Stellic is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to drive upgrades to its data pipelines and enhance the engineering team's capabilities. The role involves working closely with founders and product managers to understand platform capabilities, designing scalable backend architectures, and maintaining clean data orchestration pipelines. The Lead Backend Engineer will also mentor other engineers, ensuring high code quality and robust testing strategies.What this role involves:

• Working closely with founders and product managers
• Designing and implementing scalable backend architectures
• Building and maintaining clean data orchestration pipelines
• Developing and optimizing database schemas and queries
• Mentoring other engineers in best practices
• Designing robust testing strategies

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience as a API / integrations / backend / data engineer
• Strong ownership mindset
• Deep curiosity and customer empathy
• Ability to plan and manage technical aspects of project execution
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Impeccable communication skills
• Proven track record building and managing APIs, data integrations and data orchestration pipelines for ETL and other large-scale data processing problems using high-level languages like Python and frameworks like Dagster, Airflow, etc.
• Deep knowledge of and experience with data processing frameworks like DuckDB, Polars, Pandas, Kafka, Spark, etc.
• Strong understanding of data infrastructure, governance, compliance and how enterprises use data
• Experience working with iPaaS solutions like FiveTran, Talend, Airbyte, etc.
• Deep experience with ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, etc; (DRF, Celery 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 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)

What Stellic offers:

• Generous stock options
• Flexible, outcome-based culture
• Comprehensive health insurance
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Annual international retreats