Senior Engineering Manager

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.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Product Engineers building end-to-end experiences that help students succeed; 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; Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to shape discovery; Communicate clearly with stakeholders, setting expectations and following through; Balance competing priorities with a bias for action and clear decision-making; Contribute roughly 20% of your time to the codebase through code reviews, architecture design, documentation, and individual contributions; Uphold high engineering quality and guide system evolution through technical roadmapping; Oversee projects across Learning Experience, Careers, and Human Connection pillars

Requirements

5+ years of direct experience managing software engineers; 6+ years of experience building software products, with a strong full-stack engineering background; A "builder" mentality—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

Nice to have

Experience at a high-growth startup (B2C, B2B2C, EdTech, or HealthTech); Track record of improving engineering systems (CI/CD, developer experience, velocity); Experience building and maintaining happy, high-performing engineering teams during periods of rapid scale

Benefits

Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options; 401(k); FSA, HSA and commuter benefits; Open vacation policy; Guidance of 15 days PTO annually; Stepful closed the last week of December; 15 work-from-anywhere days; 10 public holidays observed for 2026; Equity (ISOs)