Product Engineer

Stepful partners with healthcare institutions to build talent pipelines and career pathways. We are reimagining allied healthcare training with a digital-first environment for student cohorts that prepare job-ready graduates five times faster, at a fraction of the cost. Stepful graduates, primarily from underrepresented communities, go on to work at leading healthcare institutions.

Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital and AlleyCorp and recently closed a round led by Oak HC/FT.

Us

We are successful only if our students are successful, we are successful if they keep studying, graduate, and ultimately if they find a job. Everything you will be building at Stepful will directly influence our outcomes and impact the lives of thousands of students.

Here is 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.

You

• You have 3+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a direct-to-consumer startup, preferably in an edtech or healthcare environment
• 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)

You will be successful if

• Care first: We do everything 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, we take initiative, and pride

Join our team for a unique opportunity to make an impact

We offer competitive salaries, equity packages, 401k, health insurance

Stepful is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace for all.

Note: Salary ranges are indicative and applicable to US-based employment.

Full Stack Coding (Take Home)

You will create a full-stack website implementing the user stories specified in the prompt.
We will ask you to spend no more than 3 hours on this problem. The 3 hours do not include setup time for setting up your coding environment or your project scaffolding. Your goal is to make tradeoffs so that all the user stories in the prompt are implemented_._

At Stepful we use Ruby on Rails, React and Postgres, but for this exercise we highly recommend picking the stack that you are more familiar with.

The take-home is followed by a review call (1h long) where you will present the work you have done. We would love for you to walk through and talk about decisions and tradeoffs you have made and we will also ask you to add one more feature during the call.

System Design

This is a live 1h long call where you will pretend to be a tech lead at Stepful. We’re working together on a project to design a distributed, scalable, application from scratch, and you’re leading its design. Your goal will be communicating the design and architectural decision to the engineer on the call and brainstorm with them on the scalability of the system.

Onsite

You will be invited to our NY office for the last round of interviews and to meet the rest of the product engineering team. The interview program can change based on the technical screening, but here is an example

• Additional tech screen (at certain level of seniority, or based on the outcome of the previous round, we might need to collect more signals on your tech skills, we will let you know in advance what to prepare)
• Product interview (Product sense, X-functional collaboration)
• Values and Culture fit