Senior Product Engineer 1

About the role

Stepful is redefining how America's largest health systems build, train, and retain their talent as a workforce platform addressing the national healthcare worker shortage. In this role, you own the design and delivery of the core learning experience and career services that train and place over 32,000 practice-ready healthcare workers annually. You will build and iterate on the adaptive Learning Management System and the generative AI tools that power job placement, interview training, and resume generation for graduates entering top health systems. You will also design and maintain the internal platforms that upskill instructors, coaches, and operators to optimize student outcomes at scale. You will leverage data and rapid experimentation to continuously improve user engagement, retention, and job placement metrics across a high-impact EdTech and healthcare mission. You will partner closely with product, clinical, and operations leaders to ensure the technology supports real-world workforce pipelines for employers like NY-Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, HCA, Providence, CVS, and Walgreens.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Architect and maintain the full-stack learning platform that delivers adaptive content, peer-to-peer engagement, and gamification to drive student outcomes.
• Implement and optimize generative AI features across the job-seeking journey, including resume generation, interview training, and matching algorithms for clinical partners.
• Build and iterate on the career services product that connects graduates to a growing network of health system partners and improves time-to-hire.
• Design and support the internal instructor, TA, coach, and operator tooling that maximizes efficiency and student success across the workforce pipeline.
• Develop the content management and curriculum generation systems that enable rapid creation and adaptation of training at scale.
• Establish reliable data pipelines and analytics that empower learning, operations, and business teams to make evidence-based decisions.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational stakeholders to align product roadmaps with evolving workforce and compliance requirements in major health systems.
• Own end-to-end product delivery, from discovery and scoping through implementation, monitoring, and iterative improvement in production.
• Contribute to the technical vision and architecture that supports millions of learners and job seekers across a high-growth EdTech platform.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, data, design, and healthcare experts to solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems in a fast-paced startup environment.

Requirements

• Bring 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with the ability to take ownership of the entire development lifecycle.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in React and TypeScript on the frontend and comfort with backend languages such as Python, Node.js, or Ruby on Rails.
• Show a relentless focus on solving complex problems with cutting-edge technology and a commitment to learning something new every day.
• Thrive in an early-stage company environment where you are comfortable building new systems and processes from the ground up.
• Communicate clearly and work effectively within a diverse, mission-driven team that serves students, clinicians, and large healthcare organizations.
• Navigate ambiguity and make sound decisions with incomplete information while maintaining a high standard of quality and execution.
• Take pride in ownership, showing initiative and accountability for product outcomes and user impact across the workforce pipeline.
• Align with and embody the company values of caring first, learning quickly, building together, and owning it.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in a direct-to-consumer startup, especially within EdTech or healthcare.

Practical notes

• Work is full_time based in New York City.
• The role includes 15 work-from-anywhere days and requires attendance during the final in-person interview on-site.
• Stepful observes 10 public holidays in 2026 and closes the last week of December.
• Compensation details are specified separately, and the total package includes equity (ISOs) and a comprehensive benefits suite.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for this position.