engineering
Posted Mar 26Engineering Manager
at Stepful
New York City, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Oversee projects across our core pillars: Learning
Requirements
- About Stepful: Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners—regardless of background or circumstance—launch high-demand healthcare careers.
- Our graduates, including Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians, Nurses, and more, form the talent pipelines at major employers like CVS, NY-Presbyterian, HCA, Providence, and Walgreens.
- Experience (adaptive learning/AI feedback), Careers (ranking algorithms and partner matching), and Human Connection (LLM-driven internal tools). WHAT YOU’LL BRING: - 2+ years of direct
- experience managing software engineers. - 6+ years of
- experience building software products, with a strong full-stack engineering background. - A "builder" mentality—you are eager to go deep in code reviews, ask technical questions, and stay involved in architecture. - Proven
- experience partnering with Product and Design teams through the full discovery, planning, and execution lifecycle. - A genuine love for developing others and seeing engineers grow in their careers.
- experience at a high-growth startup (B2C, B2B2C, EdTech, or HealthTech). - You have a track record of improving engineering systems (CI/CD, developer experience, velocity). - You have
Benefits
- We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare careers for those who need them most Our values: We credit much of our success to our exceptional team.
- BONUS POINTS IF: - You have
- BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION: - Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options - 401(k) - FSA, HSA and commuter
- benefits - Open vacation policy, including: - Guidance of 15 days PTO annually - Stepful closed the last week of December - 15 work-from-anywhere days - 10 public holidays observed for 2026 New Hire Base Salary Bands: Engineering Manager - $172,000-$233,000 Senior Manager - $188,000-$253,000 Please note we do not have a bonus structure at this time so all cash compensation will come in the form of base salary.
- The total compensation package will also include our
- benefits package and an equity (ISOs) package.
- Compensation for this role will fall within the pay range listed and will be determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience,
Contact
- Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with a recent $31.5M Series B led by Oak HC/FT https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-announces-series-b.
- We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025 https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-named-1-edtech-company-in-us-top-10-globally-times-2025-list.
Additional details
- We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values: - Care first: We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed. - Learn quickly: We test, learn with data, and iterate. - Build together: We win when we rely on each other. - Own it: We show up, take initiative, and show pride.
- ENGINEERING MANAGER THE OPPORTUNITY: As an Engineering Manager at Stepful, you’ll lead a team of Product Engineers building the end-to-end experiences that help our students succeed—from enrollment and program completion to landing their first healthcare job.
- This is a hands-on management role where you will stay close to the codebase (roughly 20% of your time) while shaping what we build and leading engineers to do the best work of their careers.
- WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Team Leadership & Development: - Lead your team to deliver impactful outcomes at a sustainable pace—removing blockers, improving processes, and driving continuous improvement.
- - Develop engineers through regular feedback, personalized development plans, and opportunity matching.
- - Foster a high-trust, psychologically safe team culture grounded in Stepful’s mission and values.
- - Recruit, interview, and onboard new engineers to scale our builder culture.
- - Product Delivery & Collaboration: - Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to shape discovery and ensure we are building the right things at the right time.
- - Communicate clearly with stakeholders, setting expectations upfront and following through on delivery commitments.
- - Balance competing priorities with a bias for action and clear decision-making.