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. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Product Engineers to build end-to-end experiences that help students succeed in launching their healthcare careers.
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
Company Overview
Stepful is an online platform offering training and certification for various healthcare jobs. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.stepful.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Stepful has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.