Senior Engineering Manager

Stepful•New York, NY

9d•$172,000 - $253,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

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—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.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a high-growth startup (B2C, B2B2C, EdTech, or HealthTech).
A 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.

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).