Senior Frontend Engineer

Stellic

Stellic

Software Engineering
Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan
Posted on Oct 1, 2025

Location

Karachi, PK - Hybrid

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

PK Engineering

About Stellic

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 then 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.

The Role

Stellic is at a significant crossroads. Having proved incredibly strong product-market fit, and having maintained enviable customer NPS ratings, it’s time to prepare for the next stages of our evolution. The naive implementations of our data pipelines have reached their expiration date, yet we continue to have ambitious roadmaps that will allow us to continue to improve the lives of students all over the world. We need someone who can lead us into the future by driving upgrades to our data pipelines while at the same time up-leveling our current engineering team’s ability to delight our users with new product capabilities.

What You'll Do

  • Work closely with the founders and product managers to understand the Why behind each capability in the platform

  • Help to drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering-driven priorities along side product priorities

  • Be a key decision-maker in selecting our forward-looking front-end architecture and technology stack

  • Develop a strategy for iteratively migrating our legacy front-end to our new front-end architecture

  • Design and lead the implementation of scalable, full-stack solutions for mission-critical enterprise applications

  • Identify and introduce abstractions to increase the performance and reliability of our systems

  • Up-level our general engineering rigor and maturity by mentoring other engineers in best practices, design patterns, and code quality

  • Ensure a high-degree of quality by designing robust testing strategies and implementing suites of reliable tests

Who You Are

  • 5+ years of experience as a frontend engineer working at scale

  • Strong ownership mindset and the ability to autonomously lead and drive complex implementations

  • Deep curiosity, customer empathy, and commitment to engineering as a craft

  • Ability to plan, estimate, and manage the technical aspects of project execution and delivery

  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to mentor junior developers

  • Impeccable communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams

What we need from you:

  • Mid-level skills working with modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, WebSockets, etc.)

  • Experience with front-stack engineering using TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (AngularJS and React a plus)

  • A proven track-record of building world-class end-user-facing product experiences

  • A solid foundational working with designers on design systems as well as authoring and maintaining shared components

  • Experience delivering high-performance, low-latency front-end solutions across multiple regions at the edge using modern CDNs like Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.

  • Experience working with front-end analytics and experimentation frameworks

  • Strong background in API design, documentation, and versioning strategies

  • Well-formed opinions based on years of experience ensuring quality through predictable, scalable, and reliable end-to-end testing

  • Solid understanding of software testing, CI/CD practices, observability, etc. (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus a plus)

Our Tech Stack

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, Shell

  • Frameworks: Django, AngularJS, React, Remix,

  • Databases: PostgreSQL

  • Version control: Git (GitHub)

  • Cloud: AWS

  • Deployment: AWS CodeDeploy

Why Join Stellic?

  • Shape the future of an impact-driven company transforming higher education.

  • Work closely with mission-driven leaders who are ambitious and committed to solving meaningful problems.

  • Own and scale the recruiting engine of a high-growth startup.

  • Learn from the best: collaborate with leading voices in higher education and SaaS.

  • Competitive USD salary

  • Generous stock options in a Series B stage startup

  • Culture of excellence and ownership. We move fast, take responsibility, and aim high.

  • Flexible, outcome-based environment with trust at the core.

  • Comprehensive health insurance. Stellic covers 100% of premiums for you and your dependents, plus 50% for parents.

  • Commute benefits to make daily life easier.

  • Annual international retreats in some of the world’s most beautiful cities and towns.

Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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.