Step

Step

Step is a next-gen financial services company empowering teens and young adults with free banking, instant money transfers, personalized spending cards, and rewards to achieve financial independence.

Diversified Financial Services
51-250
Founded 2018
$491M raised

Description

  • Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams.
  • Partner with Product and Design to translate priorities into engineering plans.
  • Set technical direction and guide architecture across backend, mobile, web, data, and ML systems.
  • Own feature delivery from discovery and planning through production, measurement, and iteration.
  • Establish practices for code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Scale Step’s technology platform for growing customers, products, and transaction volumes.
  • Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, incident response, and complex technical decisions.
  • Coach senior and staff-level engineers and develop future technical leaders.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk/Fraud, Operations, and Growth teams.
  • Keep customer needs central to technical and product decisions while improving development velocity.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant engineering leadership experience.
  • Experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent.
  • Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience building and operating scalable, reliable production systems.
  • Experience leading engineers across backend, mobile, web, data, or machine learning disciplines.
  • Strong technical judgment and architectural decision-making skills for complex distributed systems.
  • Track record of delivering products from inception through production in fast-moving environments.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing teams.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
  • Experience with fintech, banking, lending, payments, risk, fraud, or consumer financial products preferred.
  • Familiarity with Kotlin, React Native, TypeScript, Python, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, or Terraform preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Competitive compensation and stock options.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and company-paid life insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with Safe Harbor company matching.
  • Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave with flexible return-to-work options.
  • Company-provided technology package.

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