[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners launch high-demand healthcare careers. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Product Engineers to build end-to-end experiences that support student success, while also contributing hands-on to the codebase.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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)

Skills

• 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
• You have 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 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, 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

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