Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager

at Stepful

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $172,000 - $218,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading a team of Product Engineers at Stepful. Building the end-to-end experiences that help students succeed in 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).

Requirements

• 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.

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