What It's Like to Work at Stepful

What is your role, and what attracted you to Stepful? Describe the moment when you knew you’d found the right fit.

I originally joined Stepful as the first engineer. Back then, Our Chief Product Officer Tressia, our Chief Technology Officer Edo and I were a three-person product team building the first version of our online school. I was hooked almost immediately on our sole focus: building a rebellious online learning experience for adults entering the healthcare field. Traditional online learning often involves lengthy videos and passive content, but we deliberately broke away from this by building our own learning management system, emphasizing bite-sized, interactive lessons and personalized coaching.

We’ve since scaled to having tens of thousands of monthly active students on our platform and built out our engineering team to over a dozen incredibly talented engineers. I’ve been able to continue to embrace the spirit of continuous growth and have taken on an engineering manager role on our “learning experience” team.

What’s your favorite part about working at Stepful? 

The one thing that continues to impress me is the caliber of each person here. We all come from wildly different backgrounds, yet you can trust anyone at the office to take a task and own it from start to finish. Working at a startup means we have to break our assumptions often and learn new skills, and it’s great to be able to trust anyone with discovering what it will take to make something happen.

I saw this scrappiness in action during our latest companywide hackathon. Several new employees, only two weeks into their roles, created end-to-end solutions addressing key pain points for students and staff. For instance, Uttara, our new operations manager, quickly identified that manually personalizing outreach messages was slowing us down. Within a few hours, she had built a functional Chrome extension using large language models, significantly increasing the tone and consistency of our outreach.

What advice would you give to job seekers looking to join your growing team?

Two core values we deeply care about at Stepful are “Care first” and “Own it.” Every day, our goal is ensuring our students not only pass their certification exams but also successfully land jobs. When hiring, I look for people who’ve built user-centric products or experiences. Demonstrating side projects, previous edtech experience or even just a clear passion for outcomes-driven environments goes a long way.