About the role
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:
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Team Leadership & Development:
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Lead your team to deliver impactful outcomes at a sustainable pace—removing blockers, improving processes, and driving continuous improvement.
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Develop engineers through regular feedback, personalized development plans, and opportunity matching.
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Foster a high-trust, psychologically safe team culture grounded in Stepful's mission and values.
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Recruit, interview, and onboard new engineers to scale our builder culture.
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Product Delivery & Collaboration:
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Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to shape discovery and ensure we are building the right things at the right time.
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Communicate clearly with stakeholders, setting expectations upfront and following through on delivery commitments.
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Balance competing priorities with a bias for action and clear decision-making.
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Technical Excellence (Hands-on):
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Contribute roughly 20% of your time to the codebase through code reviews, architecture design, documentation, and individual contributions.
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Uphold high engineering quality and guide system evolution through technical roadmapping and leading by example.
