Set technical direction: Guide architecture and technical strategy across backend, mobile, web, data, and ML systems, making pragmatic decisions that support Step's growth.
Deliver end-to-end: Ensure teams own features throughout their life cycle, from technical discovery and planning through production, measurement, and iteration.
Raise the engineering bar: Establish strong practices around code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Build for scale: Help evolve Step's technology platform to support rapidly growing customers, products, and transaction volumes while maintaining a fast development cadence.
Stay technically engaged: Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, incident response, and complex technical decisions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
Develop engineering leaders: Coach senior and staff-level engineers and help create a strong pipeline of technical leadership across the organization.
Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk/Fraud, Operations, and Growth to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
Move with urgency: Help the team make thoughtful decisions quickly, remove obstacles, and continuously improve how we build and ship software.
Champion the customer: Keep the needs of Step's customers at the center of technical and product decisions, particularly as we build financial products for the next generation.
What We're Looking For
8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience leading engineering teams.
Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent engineering leadership role.
Strong Computer Science and software engineering fundamentals.
Experience building and operating scalable, reliable production systems.
Demonstrated ability to lead engineers across multiple disciplines, such as backend, mobile, web, data, or ML.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to make architectural decisions in complex, distributed systems.
Track record of delivering products from inception through production in a fast-moving environment.
Experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong product sense and an ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
Passion for software quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Ability to balance long-term technical strategy with the urgency of a rapidly evolving business.
Nice to Have
Experience building consumer financial products, fintech, banking, lending, payments, risk, or fraud systems.
Experience operating highly scalable distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
Experience with mobile-first consumer products.
Experience working with machine learning, data science, or real-time risk and fraud systems.
Experience in a high-growth startup or similarly fast-paced environment.
Experience leading teams through significant organizational or product growth.
Familiarity with technologies such as Kotlin, React Native, TypeScript, Python, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
How we're different
We stand for the side hustlers, the creators, the freelancers, and the investors — people who are not afraid to take on challenges, especially when it comes to their finances. Step is focused on disrupting the banking industry by delivering a differentiated, mobile-first consumer experience, and we operate like the customers we serve: customer obsessed, acting as owners, moving with urgency, and breaking the norm.
Step is a wholly owned subsidiary of Beast Industries, the media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast), the most-watched person in the world. Beast Industries spans digital media, consumer products, philanthropy, and new ventures, with an audience reach no consumer company has ever had — and Step is tasked with turning that reach into financial literacy and tools for the next generation at massive scale. With Beast's distribution and brand behind it, Step is positioned to scale significantly over the next 12 months, and joining now means helping shape that trajectory from the inside.
Come work with us!
Step is a remote-first company building banking for the next generation. We offer competitive compensation and stock options, generous medical, dental, vision, and company-paid life insurance, a 401k plan with Safe Harbor company matching, a flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays, 12 weeks paid parental leave with flexible return to work, and a company-provided technology package. If you're looking to join a fast-growing company with a strong mission and vision that puts people first, we want to meet you!
Step is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Step is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and interview process. If you need an accommodation, please let us know at people@step.com and we'll work with you to provide appropriate support.
