Staff Software Engineer

About Stepful

Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners—regardless of background or circumstance—launch high-demand healthcare careers.

In addition to our direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers. Our graduates, including Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians, Nurses, and more, form the talent pipelines at major employers like CVS, NY-Presbyterian, HCA, Providence, and Walgreens.

Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with <u>a recent $31.5M Series B led by Oak HC/FT</u>. <u>We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025</u>.

We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare careers for those who need them most

Our values

We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:

Care first : We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed.

Learn quickly : We test, learn with data, and iterate.

Build together : We win when we rely on each other.

Own it : We show up, take initiative, and show pride.

What you can expect to be working on

World Class Learning Experience: Develop and iterate on an advanced Learning Management System that generates outcomes! Focus on seamless UX, adaptive learning, peer-to-peer engagement, gamification and motivational mechanisms.

Innovative Career Services: Empower graduates to find jobs and match our growing network of clinical partners. Apply generative AI to the job-seeking process, from resume generation to interview training.

Empower the Internal Workforce: Design and maintain platforms for instructors, TAs, coaches, and operators to optimize student success. Leverage generative AI to maximize its impact on students' lives.

Cutting Edge Content Management: Generate and maintain content at scale that adapts to evolving educational needs. Build the technology to create new curricula in a fraction of the time and iterate to maximize students' learning.

Data Pipelines: Make data reliable and accessible to everyone at Stepful, and empower the business, learning, and operation teams at Stepful to make data-driven decisions.

This job is for you if you have

10+ years of full-stack engineering experience

Eat, sleep and breathe at least one of part of our stack (React, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL), you will learn the rest

Relentlessly obsess over solving complex problems with cutting-edge technology and willing to learn something new every day

Find excitement in joining an early-stage company and are not afraid of building something new

Are strongly driven to make an impact in people's lives

Have built something meaningful to you, before

Can take ownership of the whole development lifecycle (this means you are comfortable operating full-stack)

Bonus points if

You have previous experience in a direct-to-consumer startup, especially within EdTech/Healthcare

Interview Process

• Step 1: Intro call with Talent Acquisition
• Step 2: Non-technical interview with Hiring Manager
• Step 3: Fullstack live coding (remote)
• Step 4: Onsite interview with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Compensation

New Hire Base Salary Bands

Staff I - $188,000-$238,000

Please note we do not have a bonus structure at this time so all cash compensation will come in the form of base salary. The total compensation package will also include our benefits package and an equity (ISOs) package.

Compensation for this role will fall within the pay range listed and will be determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications as well as interview evaluation. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modifi