Senior Software Engineer, Activation at Virtahealth

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. 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 metabolic disease in one billion people. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Activation team, you’ll own some of the most critical and complex problems in Virta’s growth funnel—how we guide members from initial signup to their first meaningful health outcomes. This is a high-impact, high-leverage space where small improvements to conversion, speed, or engagement can unlock massive business and clinical outcomes. You’ll design and build systems that reduce friction in enrollment, and empower the next evolution in our scale. This role is uniquely interesting because it sits at the intersection of product, operations, and applied AI—combining experimentation, real-time decisioning, and LLM-powered development workflows to rapidly ship and iterate on experiences that directly impact our members’ lives. RESPONSIBILITIES - Own and deliver complex, ambiguous projects across the enrollment and early member journey, from problem definition through execution and iteration - Design and evolve scalable backend systems that power enrollment workflows, reduce time-to-enroll, and enable operational automation - Partner closely with product, design, data, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities and translate them into technical solutions - Build and maintain integrations with internal and external systems (e.g., clinical platforms, lab vendors, partner APIs), ensuring reliability, observability, and data consistency across boundaries - Lead technical decision-making for your team, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability - Identify and address cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and scaling challenges before they become bottlenecks - Contribute to and elevate engineering standards, including code quality, system design, and developer experience - Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader within the team, influencing beyond your immediate scope - Leverage modern AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve engineering productivity 90 DAY PLAN Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following: - Ship production features or improvements that measurably impact activation and scalability metrics - Build a deep understanding of the enrollment funnel, key friction points, and current system architecture - Take ownership of a meaningful problem area and define a clear technical approach to improve it - Contribute to a high-impact initiative focused on improving system scalability, operational efficiency, or enrollment throughput - Identify and implement at least one improvement to engineering velocity, system reliability, or developer experience - Establish strong cross-functional relationships and become a trusted technical partner to product and analytics MUST-HAVES - 5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems, with strong backend fundamentals in Go and/or Python - Proven ability to take ambiguous problems, define solutions, and drive execution with measurable impact - Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, including APIs, asynchronous/event-driven architectures, and distributed workflows - Strong product and business intuition—you understand how technical decisions impact user experience and company outcomes - Proficiency with modern AI-assisted development workflows and a mindset of leveraging them to move faster and build better 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  Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and follow us on Linkedin [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to stay connected! 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 167,249 - 216,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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. Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at [Upgrade to PRO to see link] #LI-remote