Backend Software Engineer - Platform

Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.

As an engineer on Virta’s Product Platform team, you’ll help build core functionality that powers innovation across our entire product. From shaping our AI platform to developing a configurable rules engine that enables self-service clinical workflow design, your work will have a broad impact across both engineering and our members. You’ll get hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, collaborate with experienced mentors, and contribute to high-leverage systems that accelerate how we deliver personalized, scalable care.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software features in collaboration with teammates.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following org-wide conventions and best practices.

• Participate in code reviews, incorporating feedback to improve code quality and grow technical skills.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

• Debug and resolve software defects and production issues.

• Contribute to team planning rituals such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Document technical designs and decisions, making it easier for others to understand and maintain your work.

• Proactively ask questions and seek mentorship to support your growth and the team’s success.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of team practices, tools, and processes.

• Receive mentorship from senior engineers and managers throughout the year to build your skills to lead a few small (1-2 sprints) projects.

90 Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:

• Contribute to and ship multiple product features, writing well-tested, maintainable code with support from teammates.

• Collaborate closely with your engineering team, including through code reviews, pair programming, and regular team rituals.

• Shadow key cross-functional partners—such as care team members—to deepen your understanding of our users and how our product delivers value.

• Propose one or more thoughtful improvements to our product, tooling, or engineering processes, informed by your onboarding experience.

• Seek out and apply feedback to support your growth and help the team improve how we work together.

• Ramp up on our tech stack and development practices, reviewing key documentation and attending knowledge sharing sessions.

• Establish strong working relationships with your manager, product manager, and teammates.

Must-Haves

• 2+ years of shipping backend code in a high quality production environment

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining microservices in production

• Experience with data modeling

• Experience with a cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS and/or Azure

• Strong communication skills and interest in interfacing with business-level stakeholders, both technical and non-technical alike

• Striving to make a business impact without sacrificing engineering quality

Bonuses

• Experience developing APIs in Golang

• Experience with event-based architectures (pubsub, Kafka, etc.)

• Experience with gRPC

• Experience using Protobuf to generate data models and APIs

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

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Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $122,846 - $158,654.  Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.

As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI
Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.

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