(Senior) 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.

Technical Excellence (Hands-on):

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 and leading by example.

Oversee projects across our core pillars: Learning Experience (adaptive learning/AI feedback), Careers (ranking algorithms and partner matching), and Human Connection (LLM-driven internal tools).